St. Mary’s students return, but complaints continue about superintendent excerpts: Students at St. Mary’s School for the Deaf in Buffalo returned to their classrooms Tuesday, but the frustration that prompted students to walk out of class — many with their parents’ support — continues. While the tipping point came last week with the dismissal of [...]
Lawsuit claims widespread abuse of deaf students across Canada excerpts: Students at schools for the deaf across Canada were sexually and physically abused over a 41-year span, claims the first of what is expected to be several lawsuits against no less than eight provincial governments. A Saskatchewan law firm on Tuesday filed in Edmonton the [...]
Students Protest at St. Mary’s School for the Deaf in Buffalo excerpts: Parents and students at St. Mary’s School for the Deaf are angry over the dismissal of a longtime math teacher. As news 4′s George Richert reports, some students openly protested the move during school hours. At dismissal time the protest spilled outside, these [...]
Deliberate dissemination on NCSD foiled Protest and poor conditions: Just a friendly warning: there’s a lot of propaganda being disseminated on various blogs and now newspapers. It appears that some commenters are trying to sanitize the school by invalidating the issues that spurred the protest and doing extensive cover-ups. We all can see people jumping on [...]
NCSD Parent: The staff is not allowed to tell us of situations that we should know about. I am confused when I’m told they aren’t allowed to talk to us. What does that mean? Why are there secrets? Why were staff members sent home for helping the students with the protest? Why has the school [...]
What has propelled the students to protest? 1) The are fed up with teachers, staff, and administrators who can not sign fluently. Some of them have a wonderful attitudes but just can’t sign and they want to get far in their education. They want to be understood not teaching some people how to sign. [...]
NCSD director steps down By Heather Sanders Morganton – The North Carolina School for the Deaf director stepped down from her position Thursday. Department of Health and Human Services Superintendent Dwight Pearson made the announcement to a group of parents and students that Dr. Linda Lindsey would be reassigned to Office of Education Services [...]
State investigates actions surrounding threats of a protest Few excerpts: It’s not about cafeteria food and athletics. The problems at the North Carolina School for the Deaf are more serious than that, said North Carolina Association of the Deaf Representatives Everson and Cook. Everson said the association is concerned that the deaf students’ civil rights [...]
NCSD was portrayed on the news last night. Despite the attempts of NCSD administrators to silence the Deaf students, local people are now aware of the problems there and are fully supportive of the students’ grievances. Yesterday am the police cars barricaded the gates of NCSD to prevent possible protesters from coming in. The barricades ended around noon with no disruptions. From corresponding to [...]
I read with growing concern the foiled protest of NCSD students in expressing their dissatisfaction with its current school director. NCSD Protest: Students’ Attempts to Protest Halted The students certainly have the right to protest against unfavorable conditions in their educational setting, even more if their access to an appropriate education afforded to them by the Constitution was [...]
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