Back to School Event: LEFT BEHIND
ImageNation OUTDOORS and Street Corner Resources (SCR) presents a back to school film and discussion event in New York City and Atlanta. The film LEFT BEHIND will screen in the two cities with a video conference Talk-back connecting the cites. Preceding screening will be book bag and school supply give away, an arts and crafts workshop, face painting, games and more.
About the film LEFT BEHIND
Approximately 200,000 New York City public school students are dyslexic, yet there is no public initiative that provides the specialized skill and care necessary for these learners. Frustrated that they had to remove their own kids from the public school system, a group of determined moms band together to do something that’s never been done before – open New York City’s first public school for dyslexic students. The journey is not a smooth ride, and they face both institutional and personal hurdles as they try to upend a system. A new mayoral candidate bolsters their fight after he reveals his own dyslexia. But will they be able to convince a bureaucratic education system to overhaul outdated politics to ensure a brighter future for the city’s dyslexic youth?
Saturday, August 31st
Time: 6:30PM
New York Location: SCR’s PEACE PLEX Garden, 100B W 131st St.
