Dialogue with Dave (4.1)

You know how little kids sometimes talk to themselves because they have imaginary friends? Well Dave is my imaginary friend today in order to be sure that I know everything about my topic.. everything that anyone would want to know or ask. That way, if someone asking me questions cant trip me up with facts I don't know then my paper will reflect my full understanding of the topic. So here we go:

Me: Hey Dave, my subject is how deaf students are discriminated in a classroom environment and how this can be prevented. 

Dave: Oh! That is interesting! How do you get to wanting to write about this subject?

Me: Well, I have a lot of background knowledge on this subject because of my own deaf friends and what I hear from them and their experiences in public schools among hearing students.

Dave: I like it, well is there actually anything you can really do about it? I mean, how about funding and everything? Shouldn't they just be sent to a specialized school?

Me: Well Dave, no actually. Though most people would think that would help more sometimes it really doesn't. Just like a lot of families across the US, most parents send their children to public schools, sometimes because they can't actually afford private schools. It can be the same for parents of a deaf child. It can be very costly sending their kids to a specialized school.. and it's the law for public schools to be sure that they are doing everything they can to aid to their students any way they can, so instead of having that sort of mentality, in my opinion, there should just be more done in the classroom to help out the Deaf students.

Dave: Help how?

Me: Socially in the classroom among the other students, preventing bullying but of course also educationally. Taking their education away because of mere laziness and neglect is a fail on the school and teachers part and there should be no tolerance for it. 

Dave: Well what can schools or teachers do about this?

Me: Teachers could begin just by incorporating their deaf student(s) along with the hearing kids, and schools shouldn't be keeping them all cooped up in one classroom all day with the same children unless it is their choice. In general, I think the student should have a big say in what they want to do, or at least the parents, because this way they can be more inclined to learn.  

Dave: That is cool, I never actually thought about it that way. You always just assume that they're taken care of seeing that they have an aid with them and translator and everything but to think that actually they're still not actually getting what they need. 

Me: Exactly! And it's happening all over the country. Even the government had part in this.. they shut down many specialized schools with the No Child Left Behind act transferring deaf students from public schools, who had low test scores originally because of neglect from public schools, bringing the test scores overall of the specialized schools forcing them to shut down. 

Dave: Wow, I never knew that had such a negative impact, I thought it would have more of a positive, you would assume that a deaf child going to a specialized deaf school would help instead of do bad. 

Me: Well as you can see, not in every case.

Dave: Well thank you Christina, it has been a pleasure and I feel much more aware now about what is really going on. But one last question, what is the point you're trying to make? 

Me: No problem David, and my point is that its not something we can just ignore anymore... this is the education of children that are fully capable of retaining information but they're just being neglected. It's time to change and be sure that teachers and schools can aid to these students efficiently. 

Dave: I agree! I'll be sure to spread the awareness.