Blind students required to pass driver's ed

Blind students required to pass driver's ed Disabled students not exempt from graduation prerequisite in Chicago Updated: 11:50 a.m. ET March 10, 2006 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.”

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Common sense is sadly lacking in this nation and it seems common sense in matters of education has taken a holiday.

You'll also note that while the headline reads 'blind' in the text the phrase 'visually impaired' is used. Please let's call a spade a spade and not 'a pointy thing you dig with!'