Miss-Delectable
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I would like to give some opposing thoughts concerning your opinion Keep Schools for Deaf, Blind. Whether your characterization of closing the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind is a "very bad idea" is yet to be seen. I do not agree with your opinion and inference of what would happen to the affected students should the USDB close. I also believe that you do not fully understand the issues of these students, or the educators that would await them, should they be integrated into the school districts.
You assert that students at the USDB are disadvantaged, please understand that there is a difference between disadvantage and disability. Disadvantage requires compensation , disability requires accommodation. You state that should students leave the USDB that they would be denied support from each other in their schools and teachers dedicated to their needs. Is your statement anecdotal or is your opinion based on scientific fact? Being familiar with the vision program and services available to main streamed students I know that there are new friends and peers awaiting them, and that there are highly trained, dedicated and motivated educators ready to provide the necessary services to meet their needs.
Your opinion is that should the USDB close that "these kids could be tossed into local school districts," and that would be unfair to both the deaf or blind student as well the students in the districts. I believe you do not understand the process. Students who are main streamed into district schools are evaluated, individual education plans are developed, and accommodations are made, then the student is placed with a team of educators that will give them the best opportunity to succeed both socially and academically.
I agree that whether having students attend the USDB or district schools requires diverting resources and requires special funding considerations; however, I disagree that having students attend district schools would mean that they would receive inadequate, and underfunded attention and resources. I also agree that these special needs students are among our societies most vulnerable, and we help them with their educational needs because we are a compassionate society. I believe that your asserted method of having deaf or blind students attend the USDB begs the question- Is segregating children into a institutional setting either compassionate or societal. I further believe that integrating students into a district school setting provides a very plausible, and proven solution to help the deaf or blind student become a productive and successful adult.
Please, before you assert your concerns on what the outcome will be if our deaf or blind children are "tossed into local school districts," please, consider where they might land.
Tim Robinett
Syracuse
What a naive man he is. I thought he is an audist because he seems to believe that mainstream is the best thing over deaf institution.
I would like to give some opposing thoughts concerning your opinion Keep Schools for Deaf, Blind. Whether your characterization of closing the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind is a "very bad idea" is yet to be seen. I do not agree with your opinion and inference of what would happen to the affected students should the USDB close. I also believe that you do not fully understand the issues of these students, or the educators that would await them, should they be integrated into the school districts.
You assert that students at the USDB are disadvantaged, please understand that there is a difference between disadvantage and disability. Disadvantage requires compensation , disability requires accommodation. You state that should students leave the USDB that they would be denied support from each other in their schools and teachers dedicated to their needs. Is your statement anecdotal or is your opinion based on scientific fact? Being familiar with the vision program and services available to main streamed students I know that there are new friends and peers awaiting them, and that there are highly trained, dedicated and motivated educators ready to provide the necessary services to meet their needs.
Your opinion is that should the USDB close that "these kids could be tossed into local school districts," and that would be unfair to both the deaf or blind student as well the students in the districts. I believe you do not understand the process. Students who are main streamed into district schools are evaluated, individual education plans are developed, and accommodations are made, then the student is placed with a team of educators that will give them the best opportunity to succeed both socially and academically.
I agree that whether having students attend the USDB or district schools requires diverting resources and requires special funding considerations; however, I disagree that having students attend district schools would mean that they would receive inadequate, and underfunded attention and resources. I also agree that these special needs students are among our societies most vulnerable, and we help them with their educational needs because we are a compassionate society. I believe that your asserted method of having deaf or blind students attend the USDB begs the question- Is segregating children into a institutional setting either compassionate or societal. I further believe that integrating students into a district school setting provides a very plausible, and proven solution to help the deaf or blind student become a productive and successful adult.
Please, before you assert your concerns on what the outcome will be if our deaf or blind children are "tossed into local school districts," please, consider where they might land.
Tim Robinett
Syracuse
What a naive man he is. I thought he is an audist because he seems to believe that mainstream is the best thing over deaf institution.