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<blockquote data-quote="Cousin Vinny" data-source="post: 430893" data-attributes="member: 6632">That is a good point. Unfortunately, I'm not an educator (I'm trying to join the teaching ranks again soon!) and feel I'm not qualified to do a formal study in comparing Deaf Schools/Mainstreamed Programs all over North America according to a strict set of objective criteria. I'm sure if a study was done, it will be very revealing.As to how I came up with the names, it is all based on my personal and subjective perception after interacting with various Deaf people from various Deaf Schools/Mainstreamed Programs. When I was at Gally, I met a lot of extremely smart people who came from MSSD. I also had visited MSSD several times and came away with the general impression that MSSD is a superior school. Ditto for Lexington, as I met a ton of Deaf people coming from that school and were of high caliber.Based on individual and personal subjective observations, inevitably the inclusion of schools named as 'Best' Deaf schools, would be flawed and subject to further scrutiny, like what you are doing now, questioning my choices. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cousin Vinny, post: 430893, member: 6632"] That is a good point. Unfortunately, I'm not an educator (I'm trying to join the teaching ranks again soon!) and feel I'm not qualified to do a formal study in comparing Deaf Schools/Mainstreamed Programs all over North America according to a strict set of objective criteria. I'm sure if a study was done, it will be very revealing. As to how I came up with the names, it is all based on my personal and subjective perception after interacting with various Deaf people from various Deaf Schools/Mainstreamed Programs. When I was at Gally, I met a lot of extremely smart people who came from MSSD. I also had visited MSSD several times and came away with the general impression that MSSD is a superior school. Ditto for Lexington, as I met a ton of Deaf people coming from that school and were of high caliber. Based on individual and personal subjective observations, inevitably the inclusion of schools named as 'Best' Deaf schools, would be flawed and subject to further scrutiny, like what you are doing now, questioning my choices. :) [/QUOTE]

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