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Originally Posted by deafdyke
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!
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Originally Posted by jillio
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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i reckon !
the pressure teachers get from the sped kids as slackers shouldn't (but it does, well they get burned out too) teachers aren't god-send 'teaching' robots, but yeah I can absolutely see how the teacher would look pass the 'well-trying hard deaf/hearnig impaired kids...) I KNOW it, iv'e been there, sometimes it seems they dont 'feel the flow' and nor want to try to make it happen, once a flow works, its wonders, but hell think of the other side too
the deaf kids(me) have to be on wit's ends to rank up in our own heads to try make up , to attempt to over-compensate the lack of auditory information (or just information, though gifted readers are excepted - they are just lucky) but ends up getting MORE confused. its mental torture.
aka deafdykes' words, frustrating as hell
as for both DD and jillio , you have my sentiments