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School is about more than just sitting in a classroom and studying from a book. It is about interacting with peers, and learning to form relationships. It's about socialization. It's about discovering your identity. In a mainstream school, that was impossible for my son. He couldn't interact because he couldn't communicate in a natural way with the hearing students. His identity would have always been "That deaf kid." At St. Rita, he wasn't "that deaf kid". He was just P.J. He wasn't defined by his deafness.
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excellent post! I also know that while sometimes the mainstream school can offer better curriculm, the mentality of the mainstream teachers can really dilate the better curriculm. Like we are lumped into the rest of the sped kids....quite a few of whom are just apathtic slackers (I'm not saying ALL of them are like that. Just saying that there seem to be a lot of sped kids who just don't give a shit about learning) and we get told that we're not gonna acheive or do anything with our lives.....it's frustating as hell!