

It's just a different way of learning and all the children need, they need the tools to know how to understand how they comprehend information. And I really want to thank them for what they have done. And we must look at these issues around children that are dealing and struggling with reading comprehension. The first day I met Jo Anne, she was just talking about we have to get into learning loss. Mayor Adams: And two of my partners in government that's here now Assembly Member Peter Carroll and Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon, they have been talking about this for a long time. We think that it is just that they get challenges in the school system, but no, it goes through life and it haunts you forever until you could get the proper treatment that you deserve and every public school student deserves to have the ability to read at a high level. Dyslexia holds back too many children in school. And so I'm excited about today and I want to thank everyone who is part of this important initiative. Mayor Adams: It is so significant to them.

Am I standing right? Because once a teacher, always a teacher. She calls me all the time, send me little tips on how to stand.

I still remember my third grade teacher, Miss. Mayor Adams: And so to come here and see these students and say that we are going to give them their full potential, because teaching is a calling and I'm sure Principal Leopold and the other educators that are here on the stage, they pour so much into our students and really shape them into the leaders of tomorrow, if not the leaders of today. Didn't know what was stopping me from comprehending and learning the information that was in front of me. And just walking into the classroom like these babies and seeing that sign on the back of the chair of the dumb student and really not wanting to come into school every day, because I just couldn't keep up. And you heard me often on the campaign trail talk about my struggles with reading comprehension and learning, and my mother didn't know how to go about getting the proper screening. And you're right, this historical moment in what we are going to accomplish in education for our children and how we are really accomplishing an important initiative really for our city, if not for our country.
