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With the attitudes out there and even in some cases, people are demanding hearing teachers teach their children with CIs not the deaf teachers even if the languages being used are ASL and spoken English.
My question is...should deaf people now who are thinking about becoming teachers using ASL should even bother study for the field of Deaf education? Go thru 6 years of college only to find out that they cant teach deaf kids because of the demand for spoken language in the classroom?
What do u think? Shoud we just let hearing people take over Deaf ed again since it looks like it is leading towards that path with more and more children being implanted?
Should deaf people not run the risk of wasting their time and money going to college for a field that may discriminate against them in the future?
I am starting to feel a little bit of the discrimination ...not subtle but it is starting to happen.
Or just go for it and take the risks and prove these hearing people wrong?
The field of Deaf ed wasnt what I expected when I first applied ...all I wanted to teach all deaf children but only to end up battling the fight between ASL and Spoken English. That is not my passion..my passion is the children, not the political BS with the medical views.
It really brings me down sometimes cuz I feel like I am not good enough for deaf children anymore sometimes.
My question is...should deaf people now who are thinking about becoming teachers using ASL should even bother study for the field of Deaf education? Go thru 6 years of college only to find out that they cant teach deaf kids because of the demand for spoken language in the classroom?
What do u think? Shoud we just let hearing people take over Deaf ed again since it looks like it is leading towards that path with more and more children being implanted?
Should deaf people not run the risk of wasting their time and money going to college for a field that may discriminate against them in the future?
I am starting to feel a little bit of the discrimination ...not subtle but it is starting to happen.
Or just go for it and take the risks and prove these hearing people wrong?
The field of Deaf ed wasnt what I expected when I first applied ...all I wanted to teach all deaf children but only to end up battling the fight between ASL and Spoken English. That is not my passion..my passion is the children, not the political BS with the medical views.
It really brings me down sometimes cuz I feel like I am not good enough for deaf children anymore sometimes.