Largest Deaf School in USA is....?????

chirowife03 said:
well...I need that amount. We are to have 5000 each Doctor to make any money. So 20000 is goooooooooooooooooood.

I'm already packing my bags!! haha we still have three years. Ugh.

Minneapolis does really???????? how come?????


PENNI
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Yeah it was growing large.. how it started.. in 1980's... we had Techincal College which have deaf classes and mainstream classes.. then other community colleges start to have few mainstream classes.. thats how all over usa deafies went to college and most stayed afterward due to large interpreters and housing projects available.. Now since our ex Govern Ventura changed the ecomony and laws stuff like that.. make the living cost so high, deafies are still stay and struggle (like us)... some stayed because of jobs..

They are start to moving out slowly.. Looks like its going to be down size the deaf community lately..

Not just because of Minnesota weather.. it wasnt so bad.. as you guys thought.. lol..
 
In my experience, the largest population of "signing deaf" in cities are:

1) Washington DC to Boston MA corridor
2) Rochester, NY
3) Los Angeles to Riverside to San Diego corridor
4) Austin, TX
5) Seattle, WA
6) Chicago, IL
 
I am from Connecticut and I guess that Hartford, CT is the largest in CT but IMO, to be honest, I don't see a lot of deaf people near my town, and it is hard to look for deaf people around my age.
 
chirowife03 said:
OH REALLY?? yummy..................LA is not a desirable place to me but ........that would be an ideal location.

THANK YOU!!!!!! :)

Penni
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Hello the americans!
I am a new here. Also I think that the school Manillaskolan in Stockholm is the small school but the oldest of the americans school. :dance2:
 
deafclimber said:
i googled 'largest school in usa' in search engine within a few second and it says Florida School for Blind and Deaf is the largest in USA.

check this - http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/about/ and scrool yourself down below and you can see "the largest...." yourself.
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Yes, FSDB teachers and friends told me that FSDB just surpassed as the largest deaf school in the U.S.

But we do know roughly that it has about 450-500 deaf students while it has about 250 blind students.

700 staffs and near 800 students altogether.
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I think TSD (Texas) held that before. Right?
 
700 staff and 800 students!!?? What is that place, a zoo? LOL!
 
700 to 800 staff:student ratio??? No way! Who is gonna pay for these staffing cost? I think 100 to 175 staff is about reasonable.

Tousi said:
700 staff and 800 students!!?? What is that place, a zoo? LOL!
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Yeah. I think the staffing figures may be off just a tad. During my time (1980's) there at FSD, it was at its zenith; Nearly 1,000 Deaf students were enrolled, due to the rubella epidemic. I had to sleep in bunk beds and we had four students per dormitory room!
 
I agreed so. Crazy.

I will ask my friends, FSDB teachers once more to make double sure then let you know ok .. about their staffs #. I was told about it few years back.

I know what you think. I laughed at one's post as if it's a zoo up there.

I should get the answer tmw then post it here ok.

By the way FSDB has nearly 800 students altogether in fact (for sure).
 
I asked one of my FSDB teacher friends this early morning and she said ...

Yes, it's 750 employees working at FSDB. (officially) :shock:
 
web730 said:
I asked one of my FSDB teacher friends this early morning and she said ...

Yes, it's 750 employees working at FSDB. (officially) :shock:
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That is amazing, Web....off the point a bit, do you know a middle aged hearing woman who has worked for the deaf for many years but is? (was) inactive due to a rare sickness she got in a FL hurricane many years ago. Her sign name is "DB" on the opposite area of and just below the front of your shoulder?
 
Tousi said:
That is amazing, Web....off the point a bit, do you know a middle aged hearing woman who has worked for the deaf for many years but is? (was) inactive due to a rare sickness she got in a FL hurricane many years ago. Her sign name is "DB" on the opposite area of and just below the front of your shoulder?
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No, I don't know anyone who you described. How in the world did she get the rare sickness from the hurricane? It surprised me.
 
web730 said:
No, I don't know anyone who you described. How in the world did she get the rare sickness from the hurricane? It surprised me.
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Ok, off topic once more, my apologies. Dr. Ken Randall was Supt of the school for the deaf in St. Augustine for 10 years and left in the late 80's to the very early 90's to become the Supt of the CA School for the Deaf in Riverside. Anyway back in FL, this "DB" was his right-hand person and brought her to CA, too, where she became the Assistant Supt.

"DB's" specialist DR's opinion of her rare medical condition was that the powerful forces in hurricanes picked up a rare virus from another part of the world and was deposited in FL. During the time of this hurricane and it's aftermath, there was no electriicity, and other services for a long time. "DB" went to FL from CA to help out her partents, working long hours in the heat, etc and would daily refresh/cool herself off in a 55 gal drum of water that was perhaps containing this rare virus or bacteria and she eventually became sick.
 
Tousi said:
Ok, off topic once more, my apologies. Dr. Ken Randall was Supt of the school for the deaf in St. Augustine for 10 years and left in the late 80's to the very early 90's to become the Supt of the CA School for the Deaf in Riverside. Anyway back in FL, this "DB" was his right-hand person and brought her to CA, too, where she became the Assistant Supt.

"DB's" specialist DR's opinion of her rare medical condition was that the powerful forces in hurricanes picked up a rare virus from another part of the world and was deposited in FL. During the time of this hurricane and it's aftermath, there was no electriicity, and other services for a long time. "DB" went to FL from CA to help out her partents, working long hours in the heat, etc and would daily refresh/cool herself off in a 55 gal drum of water that was perhaps containing this rare virus or bacteria and she eventually became sick.
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OIC .. I think I met her once, but I forgot her name, though. Probably I will meet her again someday. I did meet the FSDB Supt twice.
 
chirowife, love your sense of humor :) good luck with your planning!!
 
Liza said:
chirowife, love your sense of humor :) good luck with your planning!!
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Liza, this lady has flown the coop! Hasn't been in here in months! Just a FYI tid-bit.
 
Tousi said:
That is amazing, Web....off the point a bit, do you know a middle aged hearing woman who has worked for the deaf for many years but is? (was) inactive due to a rare sickness she got in a FL hurricane many years ago. Her sign name is "DB" on the opposite area of and just below the front of your shoulder?
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That would be Mrs. Deborah Boles. AFAIK, she went with Dr. Kenneth Randall to CSDR and probably to ASDB, too. I haven't seen her since the 1980's and I sincerely hope she's doing great, wherever she may be. I didn't know she contracted a rare illness from a hurricane, of all things!
 
Eyeth said:
That would be Mrs. Deborah Boles. AFAIK, she went with Dr. Kenneth Randall to CSDR and probably to ASDB, too. I haven't seen her since the 1980's and I sincerely hope she's doing great, wherever she may be. I didn't know she contracted a rare illness from a hurricane, of all things!
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Yeah, Eyeth, that's the name and, no, she didn't go with Randall over to FL. She quit and moved back to FL because, at the time, it was said that her medical prognosis wasn't to be good, that her debilitation would be life-long. So sad to see someone so brilliant cut short at such a young age.
 
I will ask my friends (FSDB teachers) about Deborah Boles and find out about her and how she is doing.

Probably post it tmw with the answer cuz I'm real exhausted right now.
 
I will try to ask one of my Florida friends
about Deborah Boles....
Hope she's doing well ?
 
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