About a week ago, I went out with a group of friend’s to watch Kevin Heart’s new movie ” Night School”. It’s a comedy about a former dyslexic high school student, Teddy Walker, who decides to go back to school and get his GED so he can move up the corporate ladder as a financial advisor. In doing so, he gets himself into a troublesome situation by getting caught stealing the answers to the GED exam. He does this because he wants to take the easy route rather than work his way through because of this “unknown condition” that he has. Still, the film has a lot of laughs and I would say that it is comedy gold! But moving on to a more important issue that is addressed in the movie,the learning disability dyslexia. At the start of the film, we were shown that Kevin Heart’s character, Teddy Walker, can not do math to save his life. In a particular scene, he is a high school student taking the SAT and upon laying his eyes on the first questions, notices all the symbols and numbers on the page start moving about in front of him and swopping places and that alludes to the dyslexia that he has but know about. He just calls himself “stupid”. Although this movie is to entertain,, I guess that scenes in which he experiences his learning disabilities allows people to situate themselves in the perspective of someone who has dyslexia and might not know it. That being said, there are many kids who have this learning disability and see themselves in a negative light. No, these children aren’t dumb, they have a learning disability! There seems to be this stigma that children who have learning disabilities are “stupid”or “weak” and it could honestly be farther from the truth. It is the way they are. Although, what can be done is to be taught how to surpass it and grow from it. Maybe if these children could see that they won’t be belittled because of their dyslexia, they’ll open up to teacher who can better assess and help that student. And I think that’s what this movie does by shinning a light on learning disabilities no matter who you are.