How to improve Schools/programs for the Deaf

whatdidyousay! said:
I wish my parents had send me the school for Deaf and HOH in Boston , it was one of the best school around. It sure would had been better than going to public school and staying back 3 years!
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Do you mean the Horace Mann School for the Deaf that's in Allston?
 
why would deaf kids need more vocational programs than hearing kids? A deaf high school should be offering the exact same things as a hearing school.
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Deaf kids wouldn't need more vocational programs then hearing kids. BUT it would give them an alternative option if they did not want to attend college or didn't have the apitude for college. Rather then being an overeducated bachelor's degree holding drone at Target? Have you missed the national dialoge over if college actually grants you a middle class lifestyle? Even hearing kids with bachlor's degrees are struggling you know. Better that dhh kids have in demand job skills, then struggling to be a cashier at Target or whatever.
 
deafdyke said:
Deaf kids wouldn't need more vocational programs then hearing kids. BUT it would give them an alternative option if they did not want to attend college or didn't have the apitude for college. Rather then being an overeducated bachelor's degree holding drone at Target? Have you missed the national dialoge over if college actually grants you a middle class lifestyle? Even hearing kids with bachlor's degrees are struggling you know. Better that dhh kids have in demand job skills, then struggling to be a cashier at Target or whatever.
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And many of these jobs in the vocational area pay a lot of money.
 
With so many deaf applying for SSI, I think it is better to give them more vocational choices while they are in high school. I personally think it would motivate them to go in college after they realize they can make something out of themselves.

vocational programs are wonderful, community colleges teach these things all the time anyway. (so why does it look bad if high school kids take up vocational education but looks good if they go to 2 years college for the same thing? )


My older brother was in a vocational program to become a mechanic.. after that, he wanted to go to college for mechanics to go up a higher level (but mom couldn't afford it so he never went. He joined the army instead).
 
Some people see vocational jobs as beneath them..like they are for low class people or something.
 
Yes, and the vocational ed, would be skilled vocational ed. Not nessarily "sheltered workshop" style vocational ed....but, it would close the gap, and provide skills for kids who don't want to go off to college (even two year)
 
deafbajagal said:
Because vocational programs cost so much money...with the tighter budgets, the schools often let the vocational classes go. Sad.
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Or contract them out to the public voc school. That is what my son's school did. When the students are juniors and seniors, they could opt to attend partial day at the voc center.
 
deafgal001 said:
With so many deaf applying for SSI, I think it is better to give them more vocational choices while they are in high school. I personally think it would motivate them to go in college after they realize they can make something out of themselves.

vocational programs are wonderful, community colleges teach these things all the time anyway. (so why does it look bad if high school kids take up vocational education but looks good if they go to 2 years college for the same thing? )


My older brother was in a vocational program to become a mechanic.. after that, he wanted to go to college for mechanics to go up a higher level (but mom couldn't afford it so he never went. He joined the army instead).
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Exactly. Probably 3/4 of VR's caseload could be closed if the problem was taken care of in high school.
 
faire_jour said:
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why would deaf kids need more vocational programs than hearing kids? A deaf high school should be offering the exact same things as a hearing school.
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Hearing schools do offer voc track programs.
 
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