[Blindtlk] Oregon votes to close school for the blind

[Mike Sivill]

You mean they wanted to stop the expensive good program from being
implemented?
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of T. Joseph Carter
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 12:23 AM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Oregon votes to close school for the blind

The Oregon school was working on establishing a program like the one 
in Washington.  That's why the push to close and sell the school 
right now-they had to make sure that the school did not have the 
opportunity to do it.

Joseph


On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:36:29PM -0400, Steve P. Deeley wrote:
> Don, I think that would be the best approach to have a school like the 
> one in Washington you mentioned.  I attended a school for the blind for 
> the first six years and then moved to a public school.  I had no 
> difficulties because I had wonderful resource teachers in the Chicago 
> area.  This was in 1968 when we moved from Kentucky to Chicago.  I had 
> many behavioral problems at the Kentucky School for the blind.  When I 
> moved to a public school, these problems were corrected by, I think, pier 
> pressure.  I wanted to fit in with the sighted kids so I stopped my old 
> behavior.  However, I have no contact with other blind students for six 
> years.  For me, it probably helped me to leave KSB, however, I'm certain 
> some of my blindness skills suffered.
> I know this is a tremendous loss for you and it is very difficult to 
> accept. Blind students do need a place to come and work on their 
> blindness skills and associate with other blind children.
> Thanks,
>
> Steve

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