[blparent] home schooling

Sun Oct 18 19:13:17 UTC 2009

If you don't have a specific handicap preventing it,I would accompany my
child to the bus stop where ever it is. My oldest son is 6 and I still walk
him across the street to his friends house. He just isn't ready to  walk
around on his own. 
Eileen

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Nikki Fugett-Dobens
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:54 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] home schooling

Thanks Leanne.
My husband and I actually have found a Christian school we are going to look

into.  I can't believe we're looking at schools already, but I guess you 
have to start early.  I'm hoping we can also find a good pre school with a 
bus that will pick her up at the door.  That's what I'm worried about, 
transportation.  I don't want her walking far to a bus stop.  I just feel 
like it's not a safe enough world, no matter where you live. I also worry 
that schools will be hesitant to work with my husband and I, and will not 
know how to interact with people who are visually impaired.  I probably have

a lot of unrealistic fears, but it's my first child, so I'm still trying to 
figure a lot of things out.
Thanks for your response.
    Nikki
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leanne Merren" <leemer02 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] home schooling

> Hi Nikki,
> The world is a scarry place, and I contemplated home schooling for my kids

> as well.  However, our Christian school uses the public school buses and 
> they pick our kids up right at the corner of our street, so it has all 
> worked out very conveniently for us.  I wouldn't send them to public 
> school, so if that didn't work I would probably home school.
> My reservations about home schooling were due to the fact that my kids 
> don't have access to other sighted people very often at home.  We don't 
> have family that live nearby, so they see people at church once a week (or

> twice for some programs), and sometimes friends come to visit or we go 
> there, but they don't really have regular interaction with sighted people.

> My children are all sighted, and I feel they need to relate to sighted 
> people.  I can teach my kids most of what they need to know, but I imagine

> there are tricks to sight reading and maybe some other things such as eye 
> contact that I would know nothing about.  Maybe they would pick it up on 
> their own, or figure it out from the interactions they do have at times, 
> but I just felt like this was a more beneficial way of doing that.  Our 
> Christian school has been wonderful about accomidating us with email and 
> actually they are going to mostly electronic communication to save money 
> so it's been great for us.
> I hope that helps.  Whatever you decide, I'm sure it will be the right 
> decision for your daughter.
> Leanne
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nikki Fugett-Dobens" <nfugett at cinci.rr.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:55 PM
> Subject: [blparent] home schooling
>
>
>> Hi everyone.
>> I had a question.  I'm not sure if this topic has ever been discussed. 
>> If it has, I'm sorry.
>> My husband and I have been discussing options for school for our 
>> daughter. Of course, it's a long way off, but you know how fast time 
>> flies.
>> I feel like sometimes the world is a scary place.  I worry about her 
>> going out, even to public school.  I've thought about private school, 
>> Christian school, or monosory school, etc.  We've also thought about home

>> schooling her, but we're not sure how hard this would be both being 
>> visually impaired teaching a sighted child to write and read print.
>> It wouldn't be hard to teach her other skills.  We've both went to 
>> college, but we're just not sure about reading and writing, and maybe 
>> identifying colors, or other skills a sighted child learns.  We thought 
>> about bringing in a tudor, but I was wondering if any of you have home 
>> schooled your children, thought about it, or knew anyone who was visually

>> impaired who did.  Thanks for any advice you can give me.  I'm glad we 
>> have a while to make this decision, because it's much more compicated 
>> than I imagined.  Take care.
>>    Nikki
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