[blindkid] St Augustine School for the Blind

[Lenora J. Marten]

Lynda, that is so awesome! I'm so glad to hear the school has
turned around and is the right place for your son. Do you think
you will make it to Orlando? If you do, let me know. My Eric,
now 18, would love to meet your son Isaac and hear how 
things have improved at ASDB. ;o)


Lenora 








-----Original Message-----
From: Lynda Zwinger <lyndaz918 at gmail.com>
To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children) <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tue, Apr 12, 2011 3:20 pm
Subject: Re: [blindkid] St Augustine School for the Blind


I know how you feel too!  We had an early, very disheartening, experience
with ASDB also.  In fact, we pulled our child out as well--we could NOT get
anyone to actually start teaching him Braille literacy.

Now, several years later, ASB (the Blind part of "Arizona School for the
Deaf and the Blind"--united by name, divided in all else... ) is an entirely
different place.  The new regime, headed by Samuel Ace, has made the school
the right  place for my son:  it is dedicated to high expectations in
Braille literacy and in the technologies that support Braille literacy.

Lynda Zwinger (mom to Isaac, 12 going on 35....)

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Lenora J. Marten <bluegolfshoes at aol.com>wrote:

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> I know how you feel - we too, at one point, were ready to
> move anywhere to get our boys educated. We were in AZ
> at the time so ASDB was not only the logical choice, but
> Eric, as a wise 2nd grader, was just sure that teacher's
> at a blind school would know how to teach him. After all,
> they were experts. We lived in Phoenix, so we put our
> house up for sale and my husband took a job in Tucson. My
> business couldn't be moved that far, so I would commute.
> To make a long story short; by the time we pulled him out
> in 3rd grade he had accomplished absolutely nothing at that
> school. I knew more Braille than his classroom teacher.
> He was holding "blind rights hour" on the playground,
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