Debate and Petition

The City Council of Southampton in the UK will debate next week whether to cut another teacher of the deaf from its schools. Three have already been let go in the last couple of years, leaving only 5 for several hundred students. Meanwhile, the parents of students in the souther port town have collected more than 1500 names on a petition calling on the Council not to make further cuts. They have the support of the National Deaf Children's Society.