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My brother, who has a "learning disability" graduated from a Salem/Keizer public school special education program in 2007. He was given a diploma not being able to read. He later went on to get into trouble, has spent years in prison, and is now in a GED program.

I wonder if he had actually been given "special" education if things might have been different for him. It's hard to find your place in society when you have'nt been educated.

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