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Most high-school students eagerly await the day they pass driver’s education class. But Mayra Ramirez, 16, is indifferent.</p>
<p>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 to graduate, a rule they say takes time away from subjects they might use.</p>
<p>“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.”
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<p>Just when I thought I had heard it all.</p>
<p>I looked at this earlier. I don’t have anything to say other than this is the sort of thing that gives bureaucracy a bad name. I tutored visually impared students in college - and they certainly have enough bumps in the round without this sort of nonsense.</p>