ASL Ban in bus
Totally unconstitutional and violates ADA!
Sign Language Ban Imposed on N.J. Girl - ABC News
Totally unconstitutional and violates ADA!
Sign Language Ban Imposed on N.J. Girl - ABC News
Reposted.
from what I read their comment said, it's from 2001? Hard to believe...
dmmit I looked there too
Sign language banned on school bus
Printed from: School Bus Fleet Magazine Forums
Topic URL: http://www.schoolbusfleet.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=307
Printed on: 06/01/2010
BRANCHBURG, N.J. — Parents of a 12-year-old hearing-impaired student who was reprimanded for using sign language on the school bus are threatening to sue the Branchburg School District if officials do not allow their daughter to continue signing.
District administrators, claiming that the signing was creating a disturbance on the bus, demanded that all students discontinue the practice. When Danica Lesko refused to stop signing, the district issued a report threatening to suspend her riding privileges. The girl’s family contends that the disturbance on the bus was created by other passengers, who were mocking the actions of the hearing-impaired students.
Danica’s parents are filing suit with the State Department of Education and have retained the legal services of New Jersey Protection and Advocacy. “It’s an issue of basic civil rights. She is a student with a disability, and the school district is trying to quash a student’s right to communicate,” Sheri-Rose Rubin, an attorney for the legal team, told reporters at the New Jersey Star-Ledger.
Danica’s parents, who have already filed suit against the district for the on-campus incident that allegedly caused Danica’s hearing loss, are ready to file a second suit if administrators do not retract their prohibition on signing.