By booboo300 - 03/04/2014 22:16 - Canada - Kanata

Today, it's the last day of my sign language class. At the end of the class, my teacher surprised us by speaking for the first time, also surprising everyone that she wasn't actually deaf. It wouldn't have been so bad had I not just given someone an answer to the test, thinking she couldn't hear me. FML
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booboo300 15

Definitely not going to defend myself, it was a dumb thing to do. Although, I did whisper, not shout, an answer just to get my friend on the right track. I totally respect my teacher and it was the kind of whisper that probably would have been tried in any class with a hearing teacher as well. She was a great teacher and I think I learned better that way. There is a mix of deaf and hearing asl teachers at my school, though. It was amazing though, because she didn't respond to phones going off, people sneezing, people walking in late (until she saw them) and even the people bashing asl and deaf people in the hall one day.

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Han15 4

shouldnt have cheated in the first place. my brother and sister are both deaf.

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worldclassrager 39

Well did she catch you that's the real question...if your grade drops drastically then she did if not she didn't..

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cwl727 32

How loud did you give the answer? How did your entire class not know she wasn't deaf? Did nobody else who took the class before you say anything. Knowing the schools I went to everybody would have known.

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creativebeauty 14

stick up ur middle finger and tell her to stop lyin! lol

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millautu 2

I understand OP. As someone with a stepmother who is deaf, it's hard to not try to slip away with saying things you know they won't hear.

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brandoneyez1 25

I had this happen to me. My teacher was partial deaf but could read lips spot on.

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carterjanelle 9

This could not have been thee FIRST time she's ever spoken to you all. How would you know what her sign language meant? Class was a big game of charades?

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booboo300 15

She never spoke not, once until the last class. I heard her laugh really really quiet once, but that's it, and that wasn't enough to make me assume she was hearing. In order to teach us she used the occasional slideshow and wrote words on the board that we didn't know. We never had an interpreter. We learned the alphabet first with a handout, so that helped.

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