Everybody deserves to have a quality education regardless of an individual's race, skin colour, political status, financial level in the community, religious affiliation and even physical disabilities. However, deprivations of hearing impaired students in schools are still rampant nowadays and even becoming worse for nonsense reasons.
"I believed that every child can learn, even if they come with multiple disabilities with deafness, or they come and they are just deaf. But I think they all can learn, somehow, someway," Kathy Metzer, a teacher of The Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Monticello Brown Summit Elementary said
In the year 2009, two former students of Manitoba School for the Deaf said the province, alleging that they have suffered sexual abuse and harassment at the hands of staff and classmates at the school.
Another case, just this year July 7, 2015, the Grandview School District has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of Jose Garcia, a deaf student for $1 million. Garcia was basically "warehouse" in special education classes even though he was hearing impaired, not developmentally delayed, Seatlle attorney Karen Koehler said in a news release about the settlement.
Seattle Attorney Karen Koehler added that the case was a record in an educational deprivation case. "What happen to Jose Garcia was hideous, we're supposed to take our children (to schools) and trust them with the privilege of educating our youth, and they just absolutely failed," she said.
Recently just this month, a deaf student in a Canadian University filed a claim against her teacher when the latter refused to put on her microphone for him to hear what she is talking about. When the teacher was interviewed, she resists using her microphone because she doesn't want him to interfere with her Hindu beliefs.
These cases are just a few to mention, aside from what's happening on the 'other side of the world'. With these rampant cases going on with hearing impaired students, some of them are even deprived of the opportunity to taste and experienced quality education they mostly deserve.
