Chicago requires driver's ed for the blind

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.

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That's bulls***. They're not going to be able to drive, so why have to take a driving exam?

Sounds like good old sense bulls*** to me. Bloody Idiots.

Ok that is assnine hilarious.

wtf?
they're blind,
they're not gonna be driving

Schools are so wierd.

i'm not even going to ask...

My 11 year old nephew had to sit a driving test to allow him to buy and use his electric wheel chair.

I was just reading this story and checking if it had been posted already. My first thought was "What the hell kind of sense does that make?" That's definetly a subject where they could say, "It's not like I'm ever going to use it anyway." They shouldn't be required to take a subject that obviously is irrelevant to them.

Aside from it having nothing to do with their future, I think it's down right mean to make them take it. It's a constant reminder of their limitations. I know that majority can leave extremely normal lives. But a blind person obviously will never be able to drive a car. So they shouldn't have to learn the rules of a road that they won't drive on.