2009 report on dyslexia from the Literacy Commission says it all

This excerpt from a 2009 report from the Literacy Commission says it all

There are thought to be about 80,000 Scottish children diagnosed with dyslexia, many of whom will leave school "functionally illiterate", meaning they have a reading age of less than nine-and-a-half. The 80.000 are just those lucky enough to have been assessed.  Its not that we cannot read we are not taught in ways that enable us to read more effectively.