Moms vs. the machine: the education fight that'll make you want to riot at a PTA meeting.
A group of determined moms band together to create the first public dyslexic school in the largest school district in America, New York City.
Direction
Anna Toomey captures bureaucratic warfare with intimate urgency.
Writing
Transforms policy fights into deeply personal stories.
Director
Anna Toomey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dyslexia affects 1 in 5 people yet remains wildly underdiagnosed in public schools; NYC's resistance reflects national failures in special education funding.
The film's release timing connects to growing parent activism post-pandemic, when families finally saw how broken systems really were.
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