CHICAGO - Most high school students eagerly await the day they pass driver's education class. But 16-year-old Mayra Ramirez is indifferent about it.
Ramirez is blind, yet she and dozens of other visually impaired sophomores in Chicago schools are required to pass a written rules-of-the-road exam in order to graduate _ a rule they say takes time away from subjects they might actually use. (Full Story)
I honestly don't know what to say. This is right up there with the requirement for braille instructions on drive-up ATMs.
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That's awesome. I wonder if they also have to fulfill a gym requirement.
For drive-up ATM's -- is there actually a regulation about braille? Or is it just easier for manufacturers to put braille on every ATM they make, rather than have two production lines? My suspicion has always been that the latter is the case, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is an actual regulation for it.
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