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lovers-love-everyone asked: I love your blog! One of my teachers at school is deaf and she is absolutely lovely. She teaches all kinds of high school science classes plus ASL 1-3. What's it like to teach smaller children? I know as HS students we're really good about facing her when we talk and not mumbling, but what it's like with all these tiny children who just blabber on and on? Much Love, Kayla!
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thats AWESOME! im happy to see d/Deaf teachers teaching more than just ASL! we arent limited!
ahh! yes! i work with little kids, kindergarten and first grade, they arent the best at realizing and remembering what it means to be deaf and that they need to face me, speak clearly etc..
but what they lack in the aspect they make up for in patience. High schoolers may be better at being aware and conscious of a teacher who is deaf, but they tend to lose their patience and not appreciate having to repeat things (i observed in a hearing high school science class this semester). my little kids however have no problem repeating things 4, 5 even 6 or 7 times for me without getting frustrated. they also have come to the conclusion that if they stand behind me and talk to me im not going to respond so they tap me to get my attention.
when i am teaching, specifically i do all the art teaching in the classroom, i can control who talks and when so then i can go directly over to the child and figure out what they are saying. sometimes i have to ask other children what child A said but they never have problems with it. occasionally i just wont understand so i will bring said child over to one of the other teachers and ask them what child A is saying.
little kids also like to just blabber, they dont really want to have a conversation they just want to tell you all about their pink pony with the rainbow hair and glitter bows that they have at home. you can indulge them by smiling and nodding and laughing and asking, “oh really?” and they are perfectly happy.
when they are misbehaving i establish that IF i SEE anyone talking, even just lips moving i will assume they are talking and get their name on the board. then i will assign 2 students at either end of the classroom to tell me if anyone talks.
basically i work hard, i focus, i pay attention, i have my tricks and i love my kids.
i can do anything i want as long as i set my mind to it!
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thanks for being a warrior or whatever, but you totally can’t speak for us and you kind of look fucking ridiculous, sooooooooo you should probably stop.
I feel like this is the equivalent of “lol at men fighting for women’s rights, thanks for fighting, but you can’t speak for us, so stop trying to support us.”
just sayin’
meh. that’s a good point. i guess i mostly just feel like tumblr takes this social justice shit too far. it frustrates me when people try to speak for me and are saying so much that i don’t want to say.
there is a difference between people speaking for ‘us’ and people standing with ‘us’.
for example pawkward, mentions men fighting for womens rights, it is important for men to fight for womens rights otherwise there will be no progress.
the same disabled people, we can shout until we are blue in the face, but without getting able bodied people to support us and fight for our rights as well there will be no progress.
we as marginalized groups cant just live on an island of just ourselves. and allies are integral to our causes.
HOWEVER there is a BIG difference between someone standing WITH me and someone speaking FOR me.
i dont need men to speak for me. i dont need hearing people to speak for me. i dont need straight people to speak for me.
i can do that very well on my own thank you!
and when allies start speaking up themselves for X, Y or Z cause the people of X, Y, or Z cause themselves are overlooked, because society finds it to be SO amazing that allied person A is standing up for X, Y or Z rights. Men get more credit for being feminists than women do!
i guess what i am trying to say is that allies are very important, but there is a line. Stand WITH me, not FOR me.
im sorry did you say that if men DIDNT fight for womens rights there wouldnt be any progress?
you need equal consensus between groups to make progress.
not really ‘fight’ for womens rights i guess that came out wrong, but there need to be allies for whatever cause. if every woman on the earth stood up for womens rights, and then every man stood up against it, we would just be at a stale mate. nothing would happen.
but allies are important. not just to stand with for X, Y or Z cause but to understand X, Y, or Z cause and support it. without getting men on board with ‘womens rights’ that would mean that we as women dont want men to agree with us and to see why we deserve just as much equality as they do, thus we want to come in to power and hold the same division that currently stands except with women in power. thats not any better.
its really not about ‘womens rights’ but human rights. that people are all equal. and thats what we should be fighting for.
thanks for being a warrior or whatever, but you totally can’t speak for us and you kind of look fucking ridiculous, sooooooooo you should probably stop.
I feel like this is the equivalent of “lol at men fighting for women’s rights, thanks for fighting, but you can’t speak for us, so stop trying to support us.”
just sayin’
meh. that’s a good point. i guess i mostly just feel like tumblr takes this social justice shit too far. it frustrates me when people try to speak for me and are saying so much that i don’t want to say.
there is a difference between people speaking for ‘us’ and people standing with ‘us’.
for example pawkward, mentions men fighting for womens rights, it is important for men to fight for womens rights otherwise there will be no progress.
the same disabled people, we can shout until we are blue in the face, but without getting able bodied people to support us and fight for our rights as well there will be no progress.
we as marginalized groups cant just live on an island of just ourselves. and allies are integral to our causes.
HOWEVER there is a BIG difference between someone standing WITH me and someone speaking FOR me.
i dont need men to speak for me. i dont need hearing people to speak for me. i dont need straight people to speak for me.
i can do that very well on my own thank you!
and when allies start speaking up themselves for X, Y or Z cause the people of X, Y, or Z cause themselves are overlooked, because society finds it to be SO amazing that allied person A is standing up for X, Y or Z rights. Men get more credit for being feminists than women do!
i guess what i am trying to say is that allies are very important, but there is a line. Stand WITH me, not FOR me.
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