Having a disability and going to a school that isn’t very disability friendly sounds like a nightmare, but that’s exactly the situation this deaf student finds himself in.

It sounds like he’s able to manage pretty well on a typical day, but in today’s story, we hear about anything but a typical day.

There was a substitute teacher who didn’t know he was deaf.

Let’s read the whole story.

AITAH For Shouting At A Teacher After She Took My CI’s In Class?

Before getting in to this, a little background information is needed.

I (17M) was born deaf to a hearing family.

My family and I sign at home but I need to speak while at school as the high school I go to isn’t the most accessible or disability friendly.

He has cochlear implants.

When I was nine, my parents paid for me to get a surgery to receive cochlear implants (CI’s) which I only really use when at school or out with my hearing friends that don’t sign.

I attend a mainstream school and as I stated, it isn’t disability friendly.

Now, onto the situation at hand.

There was a substitute teacher at school.

Yesterday I was wearing a beanie in class.

Now, usually that wouldn’t be a problem when it is my normal teacher but yesterday we had a sub.

The beanie I was wearing was covering the transmitter of my CI, while the part that hooks onto my ear was noticeable.

His usual teachers know about his CI.

I know that there are quite a lot of kids that tend to get into trouble because they’d wear AirPods or whatever devices people use nowadays for music that aren’t headphones, mainly because those aren’t allowed in classes.

Usually, my teachers are aware of my CI and know that it in fact is not a music device so I never have any trouble but this was a sub teacher, she wasn’t aware of my CI’s at first.

Keep in mind that ‘at first’.

He tried to explain about his CI.

While doing some assignments, this sub who we’ll call Mrs K, came up to my desk.

I don’t know what exactly she thought my CI’s were but she didn’t like them.

Originally, she questioned me and told me to remove them immediately or she’d have to write me up.

I explained to her, made her very aware that what I was wearing were for me to hear her and even took off my beanie to show her.

He didn’t let the teacher touch his CI.

She pretty much called nonsense and attempted to take my CI’s off.

This was an absolute no-no.

I, on instinct, slapped her hands away and stood up before starting to lecture her, telling her she has no right to try and take my CI’s.

After this little stir, I sat back down, thinking that the situation was most likely over.

It wasn’t over.

I was wrong.

A little bit afterwards, she came up from behind me and literally snatched my CI’s from off my head.

After this I got up yet again and started full on yelling at this lady, telling her that she is not allowed to take assistive devices and threatened to report her.

I know in this situation, me getting physically wasn’t the right response but I was scared as hell that she’d break them so I grabbed her hands and tried to get my CI’s back, which I didn’t.

He still got in trouble.

Of course after that she called the principal in and me having no clue what the hell was being said, I just straight up told the principal that she took my CI’s and isn’t giving them back.

In the end, I got my CI’s back, but obviously due to me putting my hands on a staff member I got suspended and my principal said I was in the wrong for the situation.

My dad is threatening to report this sub teacher to the administration.

So, Am I The jerk?

His dad should definitely report the substitute teacher.

It may have been an honest mistake, but substitutes need to be informed not to take assistive devices from students.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

It was self defense.

His parents need to complain.

His dad should sue.

This doesn’t sound like a very good school.

That teacher really messed up!

What were they thinking?

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