Thousands of teachers in California are being laid off. Many districts wanted to close many of deaf and hard of hearing classes in order to save the budget for the interpreters, teachers and aides as well. Many of deaf and hard of hearing students may as well end up going to their home school district where they might not interact much with their peers.
However, it is not a final answer. For those who live in South of San Diego will have a huge debating meeting before April 3rd, that is when the two districts decided on what to do with the deaf and hard of hearing programs: closes two completely school districts, remain few more years in their district along with other deaf peers, or send each of them to their home school district along with an interpreter. Parents were not happy with the idea. So I was not happy with the idea either.
Deaf and Hard of hearing teachers were not the only ones who felt. There were other thousands of teachers in San Diego were not pleased to cut off the students' important education. As for many of us, it would be hard to lose so many AWESOME teachers who also got a pink slip two weeks ago.
Thus, some of us ended up attending the Pink Rally, I didn't due to my mom visiting us. However, I did wear pink shirt and provide everything pink meal out to the teachers on that day. (I will have pictures coming up once the hard drive is being fixed.) I only could give you a general idea of our district attended the pink rally's link.
2 comments:
Yeah, cutbacks are hitting my sister's district too. It sucks how little California prioritizes education.
Yeah, it always blew my mind when they could find money for prisons, but not schools.
The boneheads haven't figured out yet that MORE education leads to FEWER of those that need to be in prison.
Dorks.
I remain hopeful that some of that stimulus money goes to your school district.
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