rustypants speaks

it seems like some cooler heads actually DO reside on Gallaudet’s campus.

after all this time of cartoon education at Gallaudet, maybe this protest is just what is needed to shut the place down. if more people see things such as:

• children (er, students) telling administration what to do, then when not getting their way, stomping their feet and screaming, leaving little room for rational conversation…
• statements about, “the school’s low graduation rates, which have hovered for years around 40 percent”
• the confusion even among those who are tantrumming (er, protesting) about what the real issue is
• comments from students such as, “”Over the past week, we as students have felt like we live in a war zone”

…then maybe someone will start to ask the hard questions.

if the rest of the country (which supplies the majority of Gallaudet’s budget through our federal taxes) would do some serious investigating of what conditions of education at Gallaudet really exist, perhaps this special interest group (er,  social mating ground, er, university) could be dissolved. if nothing else, criteria other than “qualifies for financial aid / will help us get more american tax dollars / can barely read or write (but that’s ok because they have a disability [oh crap, i forgot: that’s not politically correct - let’s say ‘aurally challenged’])” might be revisited and maybe… just MAYBE standards would be raised.

while the deaf community and i are not friends (please don’t remind me that i’m wearing two hearing aids and without them i AM deaf) this is not a rant against deaf people. it’s against gallaudet university and the continuation of the coddling of deaf kids who need to realze that you don’t get to have life your way all the time - we live in a hearing world. you can go and play at deaf “college” for a couple years and drop out once you get your MRS degree,  but there exists nowhere in the world the kind of insulated, pampered, babied community that exists at gallaudet. the earlier this is figured out….