The Sign-less Protest

Teresh said:
The issue isn't whether or not the teachers can speak or not (if they can, that's great, kudos to them), it's whether or not they're really making the effort to be able to communicate with their students.

If you're working at a deaf school, you should probably either already be able to sign or be willing to learn. The issue with the NTID teachers is that they're not making the effort.

A lot of RIT students come in knowing no ASL at all, but leave with the ability to sign at least enough to be conversational, but teachers of deaf students, who actually NEED to be able to communicate with deaf people as a result of their job, aren't making that effort? That doesn't make any sense.
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There are oral students who are automatically listed as "NTID-supported" students regardless of whether they want to or not and regardless of whether they can sign or not.

There are some oral students who don't sign and haven't signed for the entire stay here at RIT.
 
VamPyroX said:
There are oral students who are automatically listed as "NTID-supported" students regardless of whether they want to or not and regardless of whether they can sign or not.

There are some oral students who don't sign and haven't signed for the entire stay here at RIT.
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I know this all too well. There's a person in one of my clubs that we're forcing to learn how to sign just because not everyone in the group can speak.
 
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