N.H. School Officials to Pay for Special Schooling for Dyslexic Honor Graduate
School officials agreed Friday to pay $27,000 for special schooling and legal expenses for a dyslexic student who graduated from high school with honors, even though she couldn’t read.
“It’s long overdue,” Karen Morse said. “I’m relieved it’s over.”
Morse, who has just completed her freshman year at Salem State College in Massachusetts, had sought payment for a second year of remedial education to overcome her dyslexia, a learning disability that caused her to scramble words and read them backward.
In ninth grade, she was diagnosed as “learning disabled,” but it was another two years, when she was a junior at Henniker High School, before her dyslexia was identified.
Morse said she had hidden her inability to read by cheating, mostly by taking papers from other students and erasing their names.
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