FSDB’s Restrictions of Free Speech Objected
Dear Mr. Dillingham,I was greatly disturbed after I was informed that you have decided to prohibit students and faculty at your school to discuss the current crisis at Gallaudet University. I feel your decision is an act of oppression and audism. I was informed that your decision was based on the rationale of not offending Heidi Jordan’s feelings because she works at your school. However, students and faculty have a right to speak about this sensitive topic as allowed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Your decision hampers free speech and open dialogue in regards to a crucial aspect of Deafness, self-identity.
Sincerely,
Denny Voreck
Council of American Instructors of the Deaf (CAID) Board member
CC:Christopher Wagner, President of Florida Association of the Deaf/ FSDB Board member
Nancy Bloch, NAD Executive Director
Bobbie Scoggins, NAD President
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I would like to share some words since I graduate from FSDB way back in 1995 and I knew from the day one, that Mr. Dillingham is really not a professional. I do agree that staff and students do have rights and can speak from their own voices if they want to. I give them all of my full support and I will make sure Mr. Dillingham to leave them alone and mind his damn business! What a loser he is!
HAHAHA,
Any threat you made in a comment, the FBI will track you. They will get the log file from MZ if she is required to give.
DC — What a nonsensical comment. YOU are the one who is making a threat, not Joseph. You have a truly absurd idea of what the FBI is all about and what it can and can’t do.
Thank you for signing out (speaking out)! Tell Mr. Dillingham that he is WRONG! He has no business playing God with our lives. That is pure form of oppression.
It is time for replacement.
Mr. Dillingham, please tender your resignation immediately!
You serve no purpose anymore! It is time to pack up and leave!
Good bye, Mr. Dillingham!
DC,
So are you and your logs to all blogs/Vlogs that FBI loves to get…
thank you for posting this cute note to MZ
Unity for Gallaudet!
Sorry for a confusion. I was referring to the person named HAHAHA who posted several stupid messages in other threads here.
It is not only FSDB I am sure other states are not allowing students to speak out and staff as well. It bothers me a great deal because I am seeing more and more audism taking over… Please let them learn to speak out and develop critical thinking skills to be a better leader. Ms. Jordan will hear it otherwise from outside too. She is not like her dad I hope. I hope she has enough sense that we have the right to express whatever we want and she can respect that as long as we respect her.
If she choose to cry over all the critic that being placed on her dad then she will need to get help. Because it will be forever discussed how Mr. I. King Jordan really hurt the community.
As an alumnus of FSDB, I want to briefly share about my horrible time as an employee at my alma mater. I was pressured to resign or to be fired after I filed a discrimination case which was found to be no probable cause.
I believe that my action of filing a discrimination on the academic year of 1993-94 increase the number of deaf teachers at my school. My avenue of justice against the administration might led to the premature retirement of Elmer’s predecessor, Robert Dawson and to fire a director of human resource.
While I was an employee-dorm parent, I was shocked to see another side of the school where hearing staff as outsiders of the educational system for the deaf children practically oppressed deaf educators whom I used to look up while I was a student. Students often told me that they noticed that deaf staffs were afraid to speak out.
I was treated like a trash after I expressed my displeasure-my right of free speech- to the administrator when I was denied getting a dream job as a teacher as two opening teaching jobs were given to non-employees as well as outsiders of the educational system for the deaf children.
Seeing that Elmer’s restriction on free speech resurrects my old wound as I have to proclaim that I have been writing a manuscript about my time at my alma mater. I hope to complete it by next year.
My intention of the book is to wake up the public especially lawmakers and parents of current and future generation of deaf children about the reality of another dark silent side of some deaf schools where oppression of deaf educators does exist where former insiders of the educational system for deaf children are hardly asked to give input to improve the quality of education for deaf children.