This is a problem in many places. I also wrote about the problem with our local TC program (but then I was told I was judging all Deaf schools, even though I clearly wasn't). My daughter is in a class of 7 students, and we are very lucky that only 2 are severely handicapped. The class that is one year younger has only one normally functioning child. How is my daughter supposed to be challenged if none of the other kids have a vocab bigger than 20 words? What happens when she gets to high school and she wants to take harder classes? I took several AP classes and my husband got straight A's, we expect great things from Miss Kat and her bi-bi school will probably be unable to provide those things to her, we will probably need to eventually mainstream her. It is not because we think that she doesn't belong at the Deaf school, but because the Deaf school will be unable to educate her in the way she deserves.
