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In Fort Worth. I teach a life skills class for middle school ID kids.

I agree that the headline was just a poor choice. "Wash Your Hands to Decrease Pre-Natal Exposure" would have been better... but probably not as likely to get people to click the link. Shock value. :( Annoying.

MacBook with Retina Display and iPad. And iPhone, of course, where I spend most my time when I should be grading papers. God bless smartphone browsers.

Not an ASL teacher, but a teacher from Texas. Welcome.

Wow, and I thought subscribing them to a thousand porno mags was bad.

I have yet to meet a Deaf person who minds if two hearing people sign--that's one of the ways to learn the language and many people need that practice, especially hearing parents of deaf children. But that is simply my personal experience.

I dunno that it makes her racist... Her concern is real (mixed children often are picked on) and is not a hateful comment toward actually BEING mixed.... But whether it is racist or not she still deserves the money. That was a big mistake, and not because of skin color. Their labs should be...

Freaked out! Please do not send me a text going "please please are you still awake oh my god I need HELP!" And ten minutes later respond to my terrified reply with "I don't know how to work the electronic gradebook!!!" Just about had a heart attack.

Slow and steady... Yet I still don't win the race!

Totally depressed. :(. One of those days!

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I do, but I see aLOT of kids behind grade level for silly things (one had a deformed hand and was held back because his writing was poor.). The Texas school system is a MESS. Yes, I realize that they usually do not use full ASL but I still want to learn it. We don't speak to our non-verbal...

^^this!!! It often gets "personal"... I feel like the teachers the principals personally like often have their mistakes overlooked. I am in a union battle right now with a principal who is being discriminatory against me because of ethnicity. I am one of only a few white teachers at a school...

I wonder that, too, and I work in one. Feels a little bit Big Brother, doesn't it? This is information I really, honestly want to know. I kind of feel like emailing my superintendent. Aw man, now you got me in spy mode!

That's true, and I never meant that you should stop talking about it. I forget sometimes that many people are referencing time periods where things were very different than they are today, so I apologize for that. I was taking this thread with the image of the current day system (which still...

^^this Blind kids have it bad, too. Teachers treat them like helpless dolls or some crap when they are perfectly capable of doing pretty much anything--if you actually give them the chance instead of deciding at the age of three that they will never be able to do squat.

There are a lot of cutesy apps you can get if you are interested. "Baby signs" and the like. Saw em when I searched for this forum's apps. I think its like a trend right now or something? There's also an app that does stories for kids in sign, I think.

The first cool day we have had in Texas in a long time. A high of only 88! Everything is hotter in Texas. Including my sexy collection of Star Trek figures.

Oh man I wish this was true. I read a paper last year from a seventeen year old hearing girl (English was her first language) that went something like this: It wus bout that thing he did when he went 2 that prison and nocked rock together then wuz let out then they let him b pressident be cos...

And note that I do agree: DON'T let your school put you in Special Ed if you are perfectly capable of regular academics, as most Deaf are. That is not the purpose of Special Ed.