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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gnarlydorkette" data-source="post: 430436" data-attributes="member: 1114">Well, I apology to oversee this thread but I am not familiar with those abbreviations so prehaps you can un-abbr. these schools for us to understand? <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" />...those abbrs that I DO understand:For mainstreamed programs:I do agree with mainstreamed program for University High School to be the best but you have to understand the social background of Uni HS-- it is more for those deaf students who grew up using SEE/oral and try to acquire ASL at this delayed stage in their lifetime. It has a large number of CI students so if a CI student wants to avoid prejudice from Deaf militants, this is the best campus to go. There is not much of "Deaf Pride" at that campus (last time I checked, many called themselves "hearing impaired"). And the income of that area will omit Deaf students from the low levels of economic class i.e. Deaf immigrants so it is not wholly fair to claim Uni HS to be the best-- if it is not catered to everybody. The best for the upper-level economic CI/Oral/deaf (not Deaf) students,yes but for the rest? Not so sure.I am not to deface Uni HS-- I respect and hold them in a high esteem-- I have been to the campus and it is GORGEOUS. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/ily.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":ily:" title="ILY    :ily:" data-shortname=":ily:" /> And I do know some fabulous people from that campus in the deaf community that I grew up with and love 'em.As for residental schools:--MSSD may create some prodigys but so many are deprived of "street smarts" or "common sense" because all I see MSSD students to be stuck-up and careless about their futures and immature. Prehaps it is the teenage horomones that attack these prodigys,  but nonetheless I wouldn't even send my children to MSSD to have them thinking that they are holier than me and everybody else just for little gains in their IQ. --CSDF? Hm, well granted Fremont is better than Riverside but I won't rank them against MSSD and whatnot... Fremont is just a notch better than Riverside but I don't see Fremont as the best campus to educate Deaf children. I have seen their statistics but they are still not the best in the *nation* other than being a nice residental school with some educators that believe in the students.  It depends on what do you define "best"-- as in those that boost students' grades, levels, et cetera... if so-- Uni doesn't boost whole much because many kids were already 'smart' when they were admitted in Uni HS... I do measure "best" as those that encourage and IMPROVE the Deaf students.  MSSD and that uh Clerc Center at Gally are doing a good job at improving their newly-admitted students... so I will say I concur.My husband and I already began to discuss about where schools to send our deaf children. We are even willing to move if it means for our Deaf children's education. We are more leaning toward mainstreamed programs but with a sufficient number of deaf students (say, 30+ deaf students at one campus) to ensure our Deaf child's identity. Residental schools are still hanging by a thread but only if we HAPPEN to live in the same city as the best Residental school then of course we will send our Deaf child there as a day-time student-- never as a boarder. My husband grew up as an only Deaf student at mainstreamed schools so he was biased against mainstreamed and was in favor for residental schools but only until he realized that there ARE mainstreamed schools with a LARGE number of Deaf Students (i.e. University HS in OC, or Madison High School in SD *not the best, but a LARGE number of deaf students*, et cetera.).So having a Deaf child to be proud of his/her world and to have the best education is the utmost difficult journey....</blockquote>

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