Conditioned Failing

This packet is super informative on the history of youth development however quite honestly it just frustrated me on how little to no progress has been made in this area even though we have all of the research to back up that the deficient approach does not work. I know all to well how that system works. I am a clear representative of how that system fails. It does not work. This is honestly why I am a youth development major and why I am such a huge advocate for after school education programs, especially for rural communities as well. Rural communities often lack after school programs and transportation. I would like to learn more about how this movement has been implemented in New England specifically. I feel like in Rhode Island we are always 20 years behind the rest of the world in everything especially education.  I happen to be watching Glee while writing this and one of the high school students discovers that he is dyslexic, he went through all that time being told he just needed to apply him self, he just needed to focus more, turns out he had an actually un-diagnosed  learning disability. These kind of stories happen all of the time. Kids who fall through the cracks because the education system leaves behind kids who dont succeed. I love the idea of YDEV that's why i'm here with you right now, but we have so much work to do.