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The Sweet Smell of Victory for ASL!

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Uploaded by on May 9, 2007

The Rush-Henrietta School District made a proposal to phase out ASL class as a foreign language credit that the 8th graders have been earning a credit that is equivalent to high school level. The fight was presented by the deaf community members to confront the board in a town meeting where many spoke out to preserve ASL in middle school. It led to convince the board to unanimously vote to keep ASL classes in middle school. See how this model has set up an example of unity to make the outcome desirable by the deaf community.

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  • Atealest attache some subtitles.

  • Sorry can't do...too much time and work..the best I could do is to include a description that is posted and check out my blogspot (deafprogressivism(dot)blogspo­t(dot)com..Cheers

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  • It was reported on a Deaf dating site named Deafornot dot c om that 500,000 Deaf individuals in the United States claim American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary language.

  • Damn she's sexy.

  • holy shit she's fast, i just wish i knew what the story was

  • That is a really awesome story!

  • nope.

  • Nice. :D.

    Seems fair .

    Happy to hear that democracy works sometimes.

    :D.

  • Would someone please help me, my husband of 34 years has slowly gone deaf, no hearing aide works now. I want to teach him sign language, myself . and family, so he feels a part of our life.

  • well spanish is much more important these days

  • My middle school did not have asl classes, infact the only language class they had was a introduction to spanish class. My highschool however has more than enough language classes, they actually have lots of languages to choose from.

  • thats great!

    i'm trying to find a website to learn ASL, or a YouTube channel or something.... if you have suggestions, they'd be appreciated!

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