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PETITION: BSL for Mary Hare Schools
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1. ABOLITION OF ORALISM @ Mary Hare Schools
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1a. We call for Mary Hare Group (Mary Hare Secondary School, Mary Hare Primary School and Mary Hare Sixth Form College) to abolish oralism & auralism i.e. the cruel method of forcing spoken English only on Deaf children and children with hearing impairments and not using British Sign Language (BSL) in the classroom.
1b. Mary Hare should be a leading beacon in encouraging other schools not to use oralism/auralism alone. Speech training should only be accepted by the Deaf community and the BSL community as long as BSL is used to aid one's development in spoken English.
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2. NATURAL LANGUAGE APPROACH
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2a. At Mary Hare, the natural approach to education SHOULD be taught through BSL, the natural language of Deaf Children and children with hearing impairments.
2b. BSL should be used as a REAL language at Mary Hare. When Mary Hare converts to a bilingual school, educational interpreters will be provided (the Mary Hare Group should provide this) for teachers who are unable to learn BSL quickly.
2c. Mary Hare should be the centre of excellence in the development of BSL education in the UK and the world.
2d. Support should be provided for parents whose children are at Mary Hare in BSL training and acquistion and awareness on how using BSL improves their children's spoken English - and of course, their intelligence.
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3. DEAF EMPOWERMENT and DEAF INCLUSIVENESS
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3a. 51\% of the Board of Governors should be Deaf BSL Users.
3b. Upon conversion to the bilingual approach, the Mary Hare Group should set a target for 51\% of its workforce to be Deaf and fluent in BSL
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4. MARY HARE TO SUPPORT THE PROPOSED BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE ACT
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4. Mary Hare should support future pro-BSL language legalisation.
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200 signatures
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26 December 2015
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194.
Kreb D
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
Yes
This old pupil hopes to see BSL in classrooms.
23 August 2015
6 August 2015
192.
Barry A
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
Yes
I`m ex-MHGS. I was good in Maths and Science because they were easy to follow ...but I`ve become an Arts Manager! I changed from being a brainwashed orallist duffer to a street-wise BSL Users thanks to my
12 July 2015
191.
Niall M
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
BSL should be made law in every section of education for deaf children.
All the hearing oralists are possessed by demons, they are in great need of exorcism!
5 July 2015
25 June 2015
189.
Marsie S
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
yes
I work as an interpreter for d/Deaf students and realise the importance of recognition of BSL
22 June 2015
16 May 2015
6 May 2015
186.
Nathan Ejr
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
100%
They'd learn a lot better while communicate BSL with teacher
23 April 2015
185.
Louise G
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
Yes
its our first pure language combation with speech together
13 April 2015
184.
Sam M
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MH should have BSL as well for support. I left MHGS as an emotionally scarred pupil who constantly suffers nightmares of that prison.
29 March 2015
183.
Roger P
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
yes
I was educated orally and this method failed me as I learned nothing vertually educated myself as I went through life
21 February 2015
182.
Emma C
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
Yes!
I think it would've help so much there was both signing and oral so that children can have choices of what they would prefer!
17 February 2015
8 February 2015
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Heather L
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
yes
mhgs and ohs ahould use a bi lingual approach as we deafies need to have best of both worlds
7 February 2015
3 February 2015
22 January 2015
177.
Mike G
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you support legal protection for BSL rights?
Yes
Many studies from the 1960s to the present show the damaging effects upon education, psychological wellbeing etc. of depriving Deaf people of sign language communication in childhood... if Mary Hare really
20 January 2015
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