LINCOLN — Norah Schmidt loves reading, particularly dystopia and romance novels, but the high school senior recalls when that wasn’t always the case because of a learning disability: dyslexia.

Norah, 17, remembers being pulled out of class for timed readings where staff would hold a stopwatch and track how quickly she could read and if she was close to her peers.

I am writing in response to the recent article on the “Opportunity Scholarship” and the significant opposition it has generated among Nebraskans. I write from my experience as a parent who had children in both private and public schools, an education professional, a mother of a student with a disability, and the President of The Arc of Nebraska (Nebraska’s largest membership organization for people with disabilities and their families) board.