THIS. Seperating them for the classes is one thing, but having teachers enforce who can be friends with whom?

Unfortunately, I can easily believe it. My brother – who has severe emotional problems, but no cognitive ones – was placed in the special ed class, and at lunch they were all required to sit together and he was strictly not allowed to go off and talk to his friends from other classes. He had nothing in common with his classmates either, every one of them had severe mental handicaps but no emotional problems – though to be fair to the school, I get that they just had nowhere else to PUT him. But enforcing this weird us vs. them mentality during the kids’ own time only taught him to resent everyone involved. It was a downright disaster.

This issue with a particular Deaf school had been resolved. The oral program will be relocated to a nearby hearing elementary school.

Feel free to use the quote in your research paper

What a pleasant coincidence Mishka (with a k) is actually the name of my doberman and Zena my cat.

My daughter’s school is completely self contained. ASL must be used for ALL interactions on campus.

How are you going to have those schools in the same building? It doesn’t make sense. They should be seperate.

I agree 100% with the idea that it is wrong to separate signing Deaf Children from any orally trained deaf children. This action violates the Civil Rights of all of the children.

As to the French poem,

..La Chanson De La Pluie”..which I quoted..,”..it goes:

“Il pleure dans mon coeur..
Come il pleure sur la ville.

Quelle est cette langeur..
Qui penetre mon coeur?”

“It rains in my heart as it rains on the city.
What is the sadness that penetrates my heart?”

I guess what has penetrated my heart,..in an old woman like me,..is the fact that deaf children..still aren’t being given equal acess to all forms of language training. and to me,..learning a language and teaching hearing parents the reason that ANY form of language must be taught to their deaf children at an early age..is a priority.

This is in response to “Responsr To Boutcher,”

….so if a person with hearing loss..uses words of another language,…they are being “pretentious?”

“Que faites-vous ici? Que pensez-vous? Pensez-vous cette femme ne comprend pas une autre langue?
Ne omprennez-vous pas:

Puto ergo sum?”

Errrrm! A human being is not able to “putare” without access to language and appropriate language training,..which I do believe,..should include early on,the signed languages,..the manual languages,..for all children with hearing loss of any kind.

and to make those words true in any language,..a person needs to learn a language so as to instill the idea of language in that persons head early on because a person without language is..”hardly a person at all!”

Oralism,..exclusive oral training DETRACTS from a child’s ability,..I do believe,..to learn a language at an appropriately young age.

I should know,..I worked with “oral rejects” in two Ohio mental institutions and the worst trauma given to those children and their ability to learn any language at all was the trauma that they had picked up in “oral exclusive” classrooms.

As for pretentiousness,

….”Il pleure dans mon coeur..Comme il pleur sur la ville…par terre et sur les toits!”

Struts off full of “pretense.”