Chicago Requires Driver's Ed for the Blind - Yahoo! News: "CHICAGO - Most high school students eagerly await the day they pass driver's education class. But 16-year-old Mayra Ramirez is indifferent about it.
Ramirez is blind, yet she and dozens of other visually impaired sophomores in Chicago schools are required to pass a written rules-of-the-road exam in order to graduate — a rule they say takes time away from subjects they might actually use.
'In other classes, you don't really feel different because you can do the work other people do,' Ramirez said. 'But in driver's ed, it does give us the feeling we're different. In a way, it brought me down, because it reminds me of something I can't do.'"
Monday, March 13, 2006
This kinda makes me proud to be a Chicagoan...
absolutely not.
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. H. L. Mencken
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