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Originally Posted by kimpossible
I am SO sick and tired of hearing people becoming annoyed whenever I need to activate the CCs on something we're all watching.
It happened most recently when I was in a lecture at my school, the second half of which was used to watch a video screening like we'd done for the past 5 weeks. Only this time, I finally went up and asked them to start activating the captions as they'd ignored my request when I sent out an accommodation form. (Okay, okay, I didn't care about watching the screenings until I found out they'd be a huge part of our midterms.) They did, but today during the first 5 minutes of the screening, students shot their hands up when they noticed the English screening had subtitles.
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If a school is showing a video with testable content, it's supposed to either have captions showing, or include a complete transcript. If the school doesn't provide captions or transcripts, then they are not supposed to test students on the video material.
That's the rule. I don't know if every school follows it.
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Keep in mind I'm in a room full of at least 150 people, and I'm the only deaf one. After seeing enough people's hands raised and actually hearing some people just blurt out, "Can you take the subtitles off?" the professor stepped up to the podium and told them no, to just sit back and watch. One person said, "but they're really distracting." She eventually got them to shut up but it pissed me off to no end and actually embarrassed me.
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Wow, what immature, selfish students!
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I hate coming down to the TV room to notice my entire hearing family is watching TV and when they see me walk in, there's some serious eye-rolling when they realize they have to switch the captions on.
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They should be grateful that captions are available. It beats having to ask family members to interpret programs. I know several mixed families (Deaf and Hearing) who simply leave CC's on all the time, and just get used to it.
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Also, had a similar experience in the 10th grade where my teacher struggled for about 2 minutes trying to activate the CCs and the groaning SERIOUSLY went upscale til the point where every single person in the class was doing it. I didn't even realize what was going on until this happened, then a hearing girl in the class (whose sister is deaf) helped the teacher turn them on (I was too shy about it after that!).
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That was a teachable moment that the teacher blew.