Friday, March 10, 2006

Blind Students Required to Pass Driver's Ed

"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."


Makes sense to me. Last think you'd want is to have blind people driving around without knowning the rules of the road.

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