Here in WPB, FL, all of the teachers in public, private and charter schools were required to take some sort of ASL class since the special school in town with multi-needs students was closing and all those students would be going to the other schools. It did not go over well at all. They did not learn enough to be a benefit and students still could not communicate their needs.
I do not think it is a good idea for it to be this way.
