Deaf professor proves skeptics wrong

[murphyj87]

A teacher once told Linda Campbell she’d never go to university.

The Halifax resident is now a university professor.

And she doesn’t have to tell her students what they can or can’t accomplish.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1256950.html

PS. In Canada, it is a constitutional right that the deaf must have use of an interpreter when in court as a witness or charged with an offense, or when testifying before Parliament or a Parliamentary committee.

[CBGLuthier]

1. I expected her to be 98 years old

The thought that anyone, let alone a teacher, would tell a deaf child they could not succeed is so antiquated that the fact it must have been just a few years ago makes me tremble with disgust at that other so-called teacher.

WTF is wrong with people?

I want that craved on my grave.

[MedicalAdmin]

3. I agree.

I used to be a teacher and I can't tell you how many students I knew who were told by other teachers to have diminished expectations... It blew my mind.

My wife is a doctor and medical director and residency supervising physician and was told by here HS councilor that "honey, girls can't be doctors... why don't you think about becoming a nurse instead." My wife told him to go fuck himself and then went on to become a doctor. FYI - my wife was working as a paramedic by the time she was 16.

Why any teacher would tell any person to give up is beyond me. I NEVER did that. I would just sit down and help them figure out how to achieve their dream.

[midnight]

2. K&R