Or offering a class for deaf students specifically because in the various avenues of education I have been a part of, they never offered classes for deaf students. The father insists on having the teacher, who knows ASL, to just sign to Jacob while teaching the other students. As a future educator, that initially made sense to me. However, I learned that the teacher is there for the students and she is not legally able to do that. Also, “she’s a teacher in a mainstream classroom and she has a responsibility to 20 other kids. Her job is not an ASL interpreter”
Or offering a class for deaf students specifically because in the various avenues of education I have been a part of, they never offered classes for deaf students. The father insists on having the teacher, who knows ASL, to just sign to Jacob while teaching the other students. As a future educator, that initially made sense to me. However, I learned that the teacher is there for the students and she is not legally able to do that. Also, “she’s a teacher in a mainstream classroom and she has a responsibility to 20 other kids. Her job is not an ASL interpreter”