http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/DeafEd_MSU/?e
Go read this, then add your name to the list of people in support. I understand budget cuts need to happen somewhere, but not when it will isolate the deaf community in Michigan into an oral program. That isn't the way this should work!
Really, go read it.
To summarize, MSU is looking to make room in the budget by cutting deaf education and ASL classes at the university. That would leave only Eastern Michigan University as the only deaf education school, and a strictly oral one, at that (what is this? the 1950's? It's almost 2010, for christ sake.)
I am about 80% in to make the drive out there next friday for the rally. If you're in, let me know. I could use someone to split gas money with...It's not a short drive...
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hi, i live and work with a deaf friend. he does not sign only lip reads. thank you for for your commitment to the cause. it is amazing what it is really like out there for "normal" people, let alone those that don't fit in one of the prescribed boxes.
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