I read Jill Jones’s excellent letter (2 May) and almost wept. I am deaf and maintain attended lip-reading classes for seven years and no,I still can’t lip-read. This “hidden disability” is exhausting, frustrating and at times downright depressing. I remember my hero, and Jack Ashley,expressing his wish for all schoolchildren to learn simple finger spelling. Surely this should be an fundamental skill.
Jean Jackson[br]Seer Green, Buckinghamshire• This Thursday there will be elections in England for local councillors, or mayors and police and crime commissioners. With forced academisation of schools (29 April) and other powers over education being transferred from local councils to regional schools commissioners,why are they not also subject to direct election and accountability?
Dr Keith Stapylton
Bracknell, BerkshireContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com