what do you think of mainstreaming?

Hi dreamchaser~
Well I have been deaf all my life and attended deaf school. I love my old school.still wear my hearing aid and wishing I could go back. I started to heard about the mainstreaming school . I don' know what it's like at the mainstream schools. What I heard some saying that after the kids who are under 14 ..requiring to lean their orally and hears the sound and can' learn the sign languages.I have been against CI for years . Because I have been deaf all my life since 5 months old!
This have been disappointing me for year what I felt like the dr ...mainstreams seems like pushing the deaf world away and hopefully for the CI to growing and no more deaf people on this world. Sign languages are BEAUTFIUL and there's nothing wrong with that. Deafness people are not ignroant ..if that's what hearing people think but that's not true. I felt like they just want the CI to be like a heairng people but the deaf person will always be a deaf person . Hearing aid always been a good enough for me and I can speak and sign languages and communication with the both world. To the hearing drs ..who ever they are working on their system..programs for the CI.. They are just wanted for money! They don't care about the deafness that's what they do. That's what I beleive .This world is not for hearing people only to live on and journey on. The world is for everyone big and small ... normal or disabilty of all ages.
I have been proud of who I am that I am deaf . God created me of who I am that' me.

I could write forever on this subject. I am so pissed off and hurt over the way that I, a hearie, is percieved by the Deaf community until they get to know me.. BUt, ya know what.. If I were Deaf, I would think EXACTLY the same way about the hearing community.

Hearing people have done so many screwed up things to the Deaf, that I feel ashamed to have ears. I really worry over the mainstreaming of kids into the public schools. I don't worry *as* much when they have a tie to the Deaf community. What bothers me to death is that many of them are purposefully kept away from the Deaf community, and they are pushed, shoved, and abused to the point that they try so hard to act and talk like a hearie... Prettty disgusting..

How can we fix this? Help me to find a way. Tell me how I can bridge the gap.. Please....

Hey Jeanie.. this is Daneen.Hug back to ya. Can you give me your other emial address? Because I couldn't sent your email that I have write a long shared. I sent like 4 times but your emial postmaster blocked me can't send your emial. Weird??

I sent you an email via my school account. Hope it fixes the problem. If doesn't work, I will create a new account somewhere else. I don't understand the problem.. Your other email came through just fine. ??????

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. I'll try to check my emails throughout the day. It is sometimes hard for me to spend time on line on Saturdays.. Family time.... God bless,,, talk soon. And THANKS! J. Still chasin the dream for a better tomorrow for ALL.

I don't know how to paste and stamp it to send it forward to you. But I stillhave my long story when you are able ot give me other emials. You knwo what .? I do have gmail..yahoo.. and aol emial addresses. I think you know that gmial and yahoo are all free to sign up new account . So I am waiting and hope you could give me you new emial account. You know you'll never know what comes may or may not success in email forward then blocked! it's good to have more emials than just one. You to the same God bles sand yes the Lord knows.
~Daneen

Good Morning Jeanie. If you are in church today .. Praise the Lord... let's go to the house of the Lord! :-)
I checked my emial from you last ngiht there's a slight problem I can't read your previous email that you gave me. Let me give it to you of my emials.... so you can try to again to give me of your emails.
DLEEJ1ST@AOL.COM
godisawesome.daneen@gmail.com
daneenlb@yahoo.com
MomFairy@tmail.com - this tmobile device I take with me anywhere:-)
Okay.. try one of any of my emails or more if you wish ..lol
Have a blessed day girl!
~Daneen

I used your new addy. my email got sent back rejected.???????

I am gonna go to gmail.... keep looking here for a new email address from me. I tried to email you again at your other address, hopefully you will be able to read this one..

In His Great Love..... J

Hi there. I checked my gmail ..but didn't get your . I did sent to you yahoo. Let me know. Hug!

I will turn on my Yahoo. Might help,,, ya think? I can't believe we are having so many connection problems. I really want to read what you had to say...

God Bless,,, smiles and hugs... J

well lets see I have a weird side to this all I was born hearing but got my first mild aids round 8 years old my ears keep going away but I stayed main stream till 8th grade then some un related events made it so that I had to change schools my mom found a school out of the way in darlington South carolina that had a hearing impaired program with in their high school basically a trailer out back that the deaf kids bout 12 of us meet and gathered our interperter ha ha. we werent pushed either way we just floated along side.

Hey daydreamer! That's wonderful ! I'm so glad all is well with you along the way at your school with an interpreter. I must have one as I always requried. I'm so glad you posted it today. Hope to chat with you sometimes. :-)

hi D-neen
I seem to left out a part bout my school .......... it was a while back I graduated in 1997. but any time any one wishes to chat just say Hi I am one of the odd links of the hearing and deaf world I fit in neither side I am profoundly hard of hearing but speak clearly and readlips, often thought to be hearing

Hi there..I was mainstreamed all of my life and it didnt do me any good. Sure, I can read and write but I missed out so much in class because I had no support nor any accodomations. I was thrown in classes with 30 plus kids all using spoken skills. I was expected to do the accodomating and as a result, my rights to full and appropriate access to education and socializing were denied. Big time.

I feel bad for both of you of your own experiences in life . I 've seen and heard from the CI people . And those who have never had CI as I can remember they went to the public school with not interptered. Because I was there after I left William.s Baer school ..they sent me to the public school . Boy I was so frustrated and everyday I arrived home I cried . I just couldn't go back tot school the enxt day. I begged my parents please don't make me to go it was sooo frustrating. Then about 6 months later they heard about the deaf school in Frederick. We checked it around hte school campus.I was enrolled and so exciting . I felt so much through! I can read and write and lipreading but when it's comes to the teacher who wrote down onthe blackboard I lost every words they spoken.That's why I always can't accept CI. But I never have CI myself but I have seen and heard myself .

My mother threatened the Flagler School Board to get an interpreter placed in a mainstream school for my little brother and sister. They refused because of some contract they have with the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. My mother, who is deaf, wanted a better education for them because the ciriculum is horrible. After 3 months and after threatening to sue for breaking federal law, my mother finally convined them to be assign an interpreter for the kids.

Hi I Was Born With A Hearing Loss And Now Its Severe To Profound Unfortunality I Was In Mainstreamed Class Had Speech Therapy Everyday I Was Pulled Out Of English And Math Just Basics Classes. I Never Had What I Have Now In College. When I Went To College Back In 2004 For The 1st Time Iw As Put In Non Credit Courses For 3 Years Bc When I Took The Test.. I Didnt Know Wut It Was Bc I Never Learned Anything. They Treated Me Like Crap, I Was Isolated, Made Fun Of Etc. Being Pulled Out In Mainstreamed Classees Sucked. And Now Till This Day I Wish Iw As At A Different School A Deaf School And Now That I Just Learned Asl 2 Yrs Ago And Im Not The President Of The Club For 2 Yrs Also Its Just A Better Life For Me. And I Wouldnt Change This For The World Bc Now Im Fluent. I Can Hear Somewhat Still But Nothing Like I Used To. Also In Mainstreamed Class I Had 5 People In The Class And I Had An Aid With Me And A Hudge Speaker On My Desk And The Teacher Had Microphone Bc They Thought That Would Help Me. I Struggled Growing Up But Now That Im 22 Yrs Old I Am Happy That Im Me And I Know Asl And I Love The Deaf Communtiy.