Why does he want to ?Quote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
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Why does he want to ?Quote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
I like the idea, he can teach his peers and it might make some of his friends go and learn SL. I get that there are no teachers and none of his classmates would understand him yet but they will as time goes on...Quote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
Because he knows what it's like to have a deaf brother and he was trying to teach some of the other kids some words in sign language in case they should ever need it to communicate with a deaf person so that person wouldn't feel left out, lonely and isolated. Seems like a good thing to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by LouiseP
Put it another way, why does the school want to ban it?
He was teaching them the offside rule in BSL.Quote:
Originally Posted by LouiseP
Something everyone needs to know.
Sign language is for deaf people.Quote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
So why teach French or German or other languages in schools? They're for French people and German people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dennis tanner
And those that have had experience with family or friends that have deaf people, .. like Gemma in Corrie and the current storyline..Quote:
Originally Posted by Dennis tanner
The people that you mention need to know. Everyone else doesn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
Teaching languages in schools is for pupils in senior schools.
I'm sure when we were shown Leo in the skip and being dragged away, his position had changed?Quote:
Originally Posted by LouiseP
Maybe he was "playing dead"
Thanks Louise, I had meant Leo, it's all the excitement that Corras giving us, when not talking bout Summer, I got confused.
Stephen moved Leo's body ... when the police search the area where Alya parked the van to find bits of the bomb they might find Leo's body..... :hmm:Quote:
Originally Posted by mysangry