To the editor:
I am against parents sending deaf children to public school and agree with Scott and Wendy Newton and Shirley Platt's recent letters. I was in total communication all my life at Utah School for the Deaf and learned fast to the level of public education.If deaf children are in public school with one same teacher, they know they are different. They will not try to mix with hearing children. They feel more comfortable with their own deaf friends.
Then why should parents move their deaf children to public school and add more psychological problems? All of you parents think twice and send your deaf children to Utah School for the Deaf.
I am a supporter of deaf sports in school. Many of us deaf join sports clubs for the deaf. We learned to play sports in the Utah School for the Deaf.
If the deaf are in public school, they will not be good enough to play in their public school sports. How will they learn? Then when they are old enough to play with deaf adults, they won't know how. That would be a shame.
Wayne Stoltz
Golden Spike Athletic Club of the Deaf
Roy