[EDLING:2125] D.C. walkout cited in School for Deaf demonstration

[Francis M. Hult]

Clarionledger.com

D.C. walkout cited in School for Deaf demonstration

By Cathy Hayden

Frustrated.

That's how several students at the Mississippi School for the Deaf say they 
feel about four of their 26 high school teachers not being proficient in sign 
language.

So they took a cue from Gallaudet University in Washington. That's where deaf 
and hearing-impaired students in October successfully protested the hiring of a 
president who is deaf but didn't grow up using American Sign Language.

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