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I am opposed to the reduction in funding for the South Dakota School for the Deaf and the closure of the school campus.
Just like what has happened in today's world where rural South Dakotans have endured changes in rural education with reduced population and consolidated schools, I have accepted that changes are needed to be made in the statewide deaf school program for the sake of future deaf children's education.
The Board of Regents and the deaf community have been at odds with each other for the past 10 years. This struggle has driven deaf children and their families out of the state, hurting South Dakota's revenues on lost sales and property taxes. It also has hurt employers, including Communication Services for the Deaf, which has a hard time drawing deaf families with deaf children to job opportunities here because of the existing problems at the School for the Deaf. Enough is enough.
Let's work together to provide quality education for all deaf and hard-of-hearing children in South Dakota. Please listen and respect the views of deaf and hard-of-hearing adults who have been through the educational system whether it was in a deaf class in a public school, mainstreamed setting or at the School for the Deaf.
We know how it feels because we were there.
I am a career employee in the working world who stands next to a hearing person and also next to deaf person. My actual experiences transformed me into who I am, just like the deaf person next to me with various kinds of backgrounds and school experiences. I have seen deaf people succeed and deaf people fail in all aspects of life - just like hearing people.
Deaf people are successful regardless of how they chose to communicate - with sign or voice - or where they went to school: a public school, an auditory/oral school or a school for the deaf. Deaf children need quality deaf education to learn to communicate and be successful. Let's work together to keep the School for the Deaf so that it can continue to educate all deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the state and provide all educational options, including a school for the deaf.
The future of education of deaf children in South Dakota is in your hands. I want each legislator to give serious consideration to delay the present proposal and to make a recommendation to change the authority of the School for the Deaf from the Board of Regents to the Board of Education.
On behalf of South Dakota deaf children, I am pleading for you to reject Gov. Mike Rounds' proposal to close the South Dakota School for the Deaf. Please call your House and Senate legislators in Pierre on your Pierre Capitol switchboard.
Your support will make the difference for our future deaf children.
I am opposed to the reduction in funding for the South Dakota School for the Deaf and the closure of the school campus.
Just like what has happened in today's world where rural South Dakotans have endured changes in rural education with reduced population and consolidated schools, I have accepted that changes are needed to be made in the statewide deaf school program for the sake of future deaf children's education.
The Board of Regents and the deaf community have been at odds with each other for the past 10 years. This struggle has driven deaf children and their families out of the state, hurting South Dakota's revenues on lost sales and property taxes. It also has hurt employers, including Communication Services for the Deaf, which has a hard time drawing deaf families with deaf children to job opportunities here because of the existing problems at the School for the Deaf. Enough is enough.
Let's work together to provide quality education for all deaf and hard-of-hearing children in South Dakota. Please listen and respect the views of deaf and hard-of-hearing adults who have been through the educational system whether it was in a deaf class in a public school, mainstreamed setting or at the School for the Deaf.
We know how it feels because we were there.
I am a career employee in the working world who stands next to a hearing person and also next to deaf person. My actual experiences transformed me into who I am, just like the deaf person next to me with various kinds of backgrounds and school experiences. I have seen deaf people succeed and deaf people fail in all aspects of life - just like hearing people.
Deaf people are successful regardless of how they chose to communicate - with sign or voice - or where they went to school: a public school, an auditory/oral school or a school for the deaf. Deaf children need quality deaf education to learn to communicate and be successful. Let's work together to keep the School for the Deaf so that it can continue to educate all deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the state and provide all educational options, including a school for the deaf.
The future of education of deaf children in South Dakota is in your hands. I want each legislator to give serious consideration to delay the present proposal and to make a recommendation to change the authority of the School for the Deaf from the Board of Regents to the Board of Education.
On behalf of South Dakota deaf children, I am pleading for you to reject Gov. Mike Rounds' proposal to close the South Dakota School for the Deaf. Please call your House and Senate legislators in Pierre on your Pierre Capitol switchboard.
Your support will make the difference for our future deaf children.