Blind students must pass driver’s ed
`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.
�In other classes, you don�t really feel different because you can do the work other people do,� Ramirez said. �But in driver�s ed, it does give us the feeling we�re different. In a way, it brought me down, because it reminds me of something I can�t do.�’
