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I am glad my local area offer ASL as a foreign language in public schools.  There are teachers who get severe HOH students now and then who knows ASL . My sister and I are severe HOH, near profound, and attended mainstreamed public school from elementary to high school. I think I would communicate with teachers alot better if they could ASL.  Severe HOH still need a friend who we can relax and talk to.  We can't continue to learn how to function the hearing world and have no one to talk to without feeling frustrated. It is like a spanish student who is just learning to speak English, but yet he can't communicate clearly enough vents  his frustration in English. All it does is create more frustration. But if someone could speak Spanish, he can relax and feel better.