Matthew McElroy ’s Reviews > Moments of Truth: Robert R. Davila, The Story of a Deaf Leader > Status Update
Matthew McElroy
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Sure, this is a biography on Bob DaVila, the notable Hispanic deaf advocate and lawmaker. How do you dedicate five pages to the Deaf President Now movement?
Gallaudet, the nation's premier public deaf university had never been run by a deaf leader. The board worked to ignore DaVila's credentials, and the credentials of other deaf educators. This was a missed opportunity to explain how important the movement was.
— Aug 26, 2024 09:21AM
Gallaudet, the nation's premier public deaf university had never been run by a deaf leader. The board worked to ignore DaVila's credentials, and the credentials of other deaf educators. This was a missed opportunity to explain how important the movement was.
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Matthew McElroy
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DaVila confronts the inequities for deaf education. Due to a well-intentioned law created to provide greater access to education for students with special needs, deaf schools are harmed, because they go to schools, often unequipped to teach them sign language. They are also denied the opportunity to learn deaf culture- yes, that is a thing, and in my experience with deaf people, it is important to them.
— Aug 21, 2024 02:28PM
Matthew McElroy
is on page 68 of 240
They covered all of Bob's education in about two chapters, which is amazing. It seems like he had to overcome significant obstacles and yet, these are largely breezed over. I suppose he was fortunate to be sent to the California School for the Deaf. But what were conditions like? What was his other option? What were his greatest successes? What were his failures?
— Aug 18, 2024 07:37PM
Matthew McElroy
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Horatio Alger stories are silly. A boy leaves the farm, goes to the big city, works hard and eventually becomes the head of a company. The stories exist largely to justify the predatory system of American capitalism.
But dang. Robert DaVila is a heroic story. Mexican-American boy in 1920s California, loses his father, gets meningitis, loses his hearing, sent from LA to Berkeley for school... more to come folks.
— Aug 13, 2024 07:06PM
But dang. Robert DaVila is a heroic story. Mexican-American boy in 1920s California, loses his father, gets meningitis, loses his hearing, sent from LA to Berkeley for school... more to come folks.
