WHO Will or Should Stand Before the AB2072 Hearing??

The AB2072 blogsite recently announced that there will be a hearing on June 23rd at 1:30, and only four people are allowed two minutes each to stand before the hearing to speak in favor and in opposition to the bill.

With so many people writing in opposition to the bill, it would be a challenge to select just two. WHO should be selected to speak before the hearing?? It is a given that the speakers have to be California resident. Many letters were written by people who live outside of California but they had such a profound impact upon the senators that they suspended the bill on 16th of this month to request this hearing to give the opportunity for the people to speak, to lend their voices to the bill.

We sincerely thank those non-residents for writing in opposition to the bill for the residents of California.

The non-residents wrote not because they wanted to lend a hand but to protect THEIR home states. Were this bill, AB2072, to pass, it definitely may lead to a domino effect. Other states may follow. The non-residents foresee that and knew to write to "nip this in the bud," so to speak.

Writing the letters was the farthest thing they could do to assist. Only a Californian can speak at the hearing. There were several people from the organization in Riverside who wrote in opposition to the bill. Tina Jo Brindel-Dannis and Theresa Maxwell are leading this organization. I would think someone from this organization ought be selected. The other speaker should be someone from the Bay area, representing Fremont.

However, it would make more impact if someone from the larger body of representation for the deaf children who are in mainstreamed programs to speak before the hearing as she/he would represent the proof on how CI and oralism barely succeeded in disseminating their students which is what the bill is based on. The Riverside and Fremont campuses represent only a fraction of the deaf student body in state of California. The vast majority is in the public schools.

Does anyone think a good representative from that larger body of deaf students could be sought to speak before the hearing in opposition to AB2072? Or do people feel those said representatives would support AB207s despite the obvious failures seen in their students in the public schools who, by a vast majority, wear CI and speak? Hence it would be in our best interest to send speakers from the smaller bodies of representation namely the Riverside and Fremont campuses?

Whoever they choose to send to the hearing as speakers, they must choose CAREFULLY and WISELY!