DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 4, 2016
-- deaf student not allowed to hide CI
A deaf student at a high school in Abilene, Texas
is not allowed to hide his CI inside his long
hair. School policy is that students must cut
their hair short. This deaf student does not
want to show his CI and it is the reason for
the long hair. As a result he has gotten
into a lot of trouble with the school
administration. Not giving up he plans to
file an appeal with the school board,
and go from there. A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/student-vs-school-hair-policy/
-- President Nixon could have delayed the captions
In 1969 President Nixon thought PBS was not important
and wanted to cut federal funding for this TV
network. Key Republicans agreed with him. Fortunately
because of fierce opposition in budget hearings,
budget cuts never happened. The first open
captions was shown by PBS in 1972 and the first
closed captions was also shown by PBS a year later
in 1973. PBS was the only one to support captions
as ABC, CBS and NBC all fiercely opposed it.
If PBS was closed down, then captions would have
been delayed until - who knows - maybe 1990's!
-- landlord said that apartment not for deaf
An apartment management company in Denver, CO
told a deaf person:
"if you're deaf, I don't think this is the place
for you"
As a result, the Denver Metro Fair Housing Center
is taking legal action against the apartment
management. This agency has the voice video
recording of that comment. We shall see what
the agency would do with the apartment management.
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- library fingerprinting
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
10/30/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
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