Have you ever had a moment when you realized you were wrong? If you have you can imagine how I felt when I found out the harsh truth about, in my opinion, one of the major issues that has been overlooked in this country. No one really thinks about it until you really need to, but it is bigger than the “black live matter” movement that is plaguing our country right now. Don’t worry, we still have time to change it just takes a handful of people to make a difference. I just need your eyes for a moment and you can lend us a hand in fighting this battle.
I woke up that morning not knowing what I was getting myself into. I went to school like it was any other day, and even though my teachers gave me mountains of homework. I, as any other teenager, …show more content…
It’s as if I woke up from a crazy dream, and the world was a new place that I had never imagined. A whole new community of people had opened itself up to me and I needed to explore it. As a product of the 21st century all I needed to do was grab my phone and type in “Major issues in the Deaf Community” and that’s when the floodgates broke. In a way it’s as if I had been enlightened on one of the major minority groups in our country, while everyone else in the country was freaking out about Ferguson I had seen a different war that people were practically ignoring. In 2011, 0.38% of the United States population was deaf, while in 2010 12.6% of the United States population was African American. My mind was blown. I never imagined that it was so low. To make it worse one of the more shocking things that I found was the fact that even though American Sign Language is the sixth-most used language in the United States, deaf students are still struggling in the public school system because they don’t have the proper means to learn the way we hearing people do. People don’t realize that because of this, deaf students have to have their own schools separate from the hearing students, and to me that’s a form of segregation. Most people might not think so because the deaf schools do help most deaf students, but if you seriously think about it you can see that we are just sending to a different school because we don’t know how to deal with them. Now many hearing people rarely encounter a deaf person, and when they do they don’t know how to go about
I woke up that morning not knowing what I was getting myself into. I went to school like it was any other day, and even though my teachers gave me mountains of homework. I, as any other teenager, …show more content…
It’s as if I woke up from a crazy dream, and the world was a new place that I had never imagined. A whole new community of people had opened itself up to me and I needed to explore it. As a product of the 21st century all I needed to do was grab my phone and type in “Major issues in the Deaf Community” and that’s when the floodgates broke. In a way it’s as if I had been enlightened on one of the major minority groups in our country, while everyone else in the country was freaking out about Ferguson I had seen a different war that people were practically ignoring. In 2011, 0.38% of the United States population was deaf, while in 2010 12.6% of the United States population was African American. My mind was blown. I never imagined that it was so low. To make it worse one of the more shocking things that I found was the fact that even though American Sign Language is the sixth-most used language in the United States, deaf students are still struggling in the public school system because they don’t have the proper means to learn the way we hearing people do. People don’t realize that because of this, deaf students have to have their own schools separate from the hearing students, and to me that’s a form of segregation. Most people might not think so because the deaf schools do help most deaf students, but if you seriously think about it you can see that we are just sending to a different school because we don’t know how to deal with them. Now many hearing people rarely encounter a deaf person, and when they do they don’t know how to go about