[blparent] home schooling

Sun Oct 25 03:04:23 UTC 2009

Not something I would do, but it really amazes me as how many children come
to the bus stop alone.  There used to be a little girl who would walk a long
way to this particular stop with absolutely no adult to accompany her.  I
walk Gab everyday.  I used to walk to meet her in the afternoon, but now
there is a whole slue of kids that walk this way and she wants to walk with
them.  Since she is not alone, I let her and the whole group are all 4th
graders.  But don't fret, I wait near the door waiting to hear them laughing
coming up the road. V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Elizabeth Cooks
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] home schooling

Much safer.  I heard of a child recently who was out walking to her friend's

house, about six years old, and hse was beaten by a teenager.  I don't know 
why her parents let her go off on her own.  Not something i would do.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eileen Levin" <eileenlevin at comcast.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] home schooling

> 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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