Aleysha Ortiz, a teen from Connecticut, passed high school last June as an honour graduate. But now, at 19, she says she can’t read, can’t write, and is failing in college—all because of her former high school.

Aleysha Ortiz is 19 years old and in her freshman year at the University of Connecticut. She graduated last year from a public high school in Hartford – even though she can’t read or write.

A Connecticut student who testified about being illiterate during a city council meeting then went on to graduate high school with honors the next month is now suing the City of Hartford and its board of education for negligence.