Story of the Day 12/12/2008

At my son’s high school, there is a class called Avid…. They have people come in and talk about different topics.
One year, the mayor came in and spoke to them. Another time it was someone from the cooking channel.
This Friday, they had two seniors from the Deaf School.
If you didn’t get this, from context, the “guests” were Deaf. And the interpreter didn’t’ show up.

So, a student asked Aaron during lunch if he could come and interpret for them.
Aaron said,. “Why don’t’ you get Ms. Blankenbaker( his resource teacher. ) She could do a better job than me.”
But Ms. Bankenbaker wasn’t at school…so, Aaron asked his English teacher if he could interpret during his English class.
She said ,"Yes."
He got his stuff and went off to interpret for the two guys.

It was a very racial experience.
First, Aaron interpreted a question one of the Deaf kids (both were white) had for the class, ”Do you have black classes?”
The reaction was “What?”So Aaron asked the Deaf kid, “B-L-A-C-K?”And he said, “No, B-L-O-C-K.”
Well, they don’t’ have block classes.
Then one of the students from the Avid class asked if the Deaf kids listened to music.
“Yes."
“Well, what do you like?”
“Three 6 Mafia”
I have no idea what that is, but the black kids in the class all went “Yeah!”
Then, when asked if they had girl friends, one of the Deaf students answered, “No, I am a single player.”
That same student was eager to get phone numbers from some of the class…….

According to Aaron, it was more fun than English class. And it was possibly more educational than when the mayor spoke.
Personally, I think Ms. Blankenbaker is really glad she was absent.