Deaf schools or mainstream?

jillio said:
Sweetie, they gave you a passing grade. But they didn't teach you the skills necessary to do college level work. The college is trying to do that now by allowing you to take remedial courses.
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Just three, I can pass them just fine. Besides, I think CPT stupid that all.
 
Meggie2 said:
Just three, I can pass them just fine. Besides, I think CPT stupid that all.
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And there are only 3. The placement tests check you on reading comprehension, writing skills, and quantitative skills. You are having to take all 3. That means that the mainstream did not give you the skills to read at the level of a high school graduate, to write at the level of a high school graduate, or to do math at the level of a high school graduate. If you had been given those skills in the mainstream, you would have placed directly into college level classes. The reason the college placed you in developmental courses is so they can try to help you get your skills to the level of a high school graduate so that you will be able to take the freshman level courses and pass them.
 
Byrdie714 said:
I'm confused.

Is it, 'is' or 'was' the best ?

I'm not sure it was the best. Mediocre maybe, but not the best.
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If it was the best, students would be graduating prepared to do college level work.
 
Byrdie714 said:
I'm confused.

Is it, 'is' or 'was' the best ?

I'm not sure it was the best. Mediocre maybe, but not the best.
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I just graduated from high school. I trying to get used to being out of high school, so forgive me.
 
Byrdie714 said:
True.

Unfortuantely not only it shows in the deaf community but hearing people as well.
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Absolutely. Which is one of my major rationales in advocating for a bi-bi atmosphere. The mainstream cannot even adequately educate its hearing students. How in the world can they educate a student with need for accommodation?
 
This makes me feel lucky that I had a good interpreter and good teachers at high school in my honors and AP classes, making my degree, a high honors one, from there mean something. I took less classes at RIT because of the AP tests.

I know of at least one person who just got a local high school degree at the same school, not the state one and had trouble with English. He most likely had a different educational background before high school, maybe with mediocre to terrible schools, or didn't take school as seriously.
 
I find it rather something interesting here....

Suggest you to re-read the first 3-4 pages (and few of those submitted after pages 3-4) where some posts submitted by those mainstreamed H.S. graduates who didn't write well especially grammar which you should spot immediately on. I'm not going to name those posters out of respect.

I would safely say those several posters must be disillusioned claiming that mainstream schools provided (provide) better education. Although I do believe that some mainstream schools did provide better education in general, if not all than some deaf schools did for sure. (think it might be fair enough... sort of)

Let's ask yourself - how could they claim that theirs provided better education than deaf schools although same those that didn't attend to a deaf school yet? :hmm:
 
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