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I don't only fingerspell, what are you talking about?

What the heck are you talking about? I haven't shadowed a teacher since undergraduate student teaching. I also have repeatedly said that I do know ASL and that I have been in programs in the past that had students that used ASL, including being an itinerant with students in the mainstream who...

No, claiming that I am such an idiot that I think that being cute gets a deaf child through the world is personally attacking me. The condescending "darling" and "sweetie" bullshit is obnoxious as well.

No, I am not talking about 40 years ago. I worked with a student whose family had pulled him from the deaf school after he was sexually assaulted. He had been abused by another student and by a teacher. He had no way to communicate to his family what was happening and it took a long time for...

What are you talking about? I have only been in this particular program for 3 years. Before that, I was a teacher in a self-contained classroom for first through third graders and before that, I was an itinerant teacher in a public school district. I have had a variety of students over the...

You continue to claim that I have denied things I have said. Show me a SINGLE thing that you quoted and I denied or changed. You can't. You have chosen to read into my words things I have NOT said and then, of course, I say you are wrong. If you show me a single thing that I denied after you...

And I know tons of deaf adults who are happy and doing very well in life. They are well educated, have careers and happy families. Why is it that you can't accept that people are different? I have not only worked in preschool. As I have stated time and again, I have experience with older...

So what happened was that you met one gross d/Deaf guy who was such a weirdo that he couldn't deal with a real relationship and saw prostitutes. Ok, there are gross hearing people who do that too. What on earth does that have to do with listening and spoken language? As I have told you more than...

What are you talking about? Are you saying that d/Deaf men seek out prostitutes? Now I know you are cracked.

You have attended all of the teacher of the deaf preparation programs? You obviously didn't attend mine because that was not remotely what was taught. If mainstreaming worked for all students with no services, I would be out of a job.

I don't have two jobs. I work in a private school and we serve students from birth to age 8. I have worked in other schools and districts in the past. I said that I have been an itinerant in the past. My career requires continuing education units, so I must attend trainings to keep my...

Have you attended any teacher preparations programs and know what is actually said in the classes?

I have been to both a Clarke conference and the Success for Kids with Hearing Loss conference. They both are about students in inclusive settings. I have also worked as an itinerant personally.

No, that isn't. People choose the mainstream for a variety of reasons. Have you ever asked parents why they chose the placement that their child is in?

Which means that I think that all students should have access to a variety of options.

In what way are they stunted? That is why we look at social development and advocacy. It is critical that social/emotional and cognition are always kept in mind. Actually, wearing my glasses is like using assistive technology. It would be like you taking away my glasses and teaching me braille...

When did I say anything like that?

And that is a problem. Geography shouldn't determine choices or outcomes.

What part of the students' development are we not looking at?

And? I have never said that spoken language was every family's choice. I said that I am here to provide excellent services to the families that *do* choose spoken language.