[blparent] 5th grade teacher

Thu Aug 19 01:36:24 UTC 2010

Thanks for that perspective.  I needed that. V

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Subject: Re: [blparent] 5th grade teacher

Yes, this is what I was thinking. 
The question is if the other parents would be able to independently
check on Johnny's homework assignment. Sounds like Gab is responsible
for copying it down, but parents are responsible for reading it. Since
you can't read print, I'd tell him that and say "Johnny's mom can look
in his bag and see that this page is his homework, this other page is
his field trip form, this other page is aa love letter to the cute girl
across the room" you don't have that so you want all teacher generated
stuff emailed home. This would include assignments but also field trip
and other stuff. If he can't or won't do this, the school has a
secretary. She can email things. You can also ask if he posts stuff
online and pull it from that source. Point being, it isn't his job to
email necessarily, but it is the school's job to make sure you have
access to the same stuff as everybody else. Try phrasing it this way.
Know too that he has a boss and you can go to him or her if he holds
out. I also wouldn't get too hung up on him not having had a blind
parent before, sounds like he just said it to say it. 

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Andrew Wagner
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:48 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] 5th grade teacher

Just to offer another perspective, at least consider that his response
wasn't because of your disability. There's nothing about you're request
(as
I understand it) that's because of it. He could have just as easily
gotten
that request from a sighted parent. So maybe he's concerned about why
you
think you're not getting all the notes or something.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Gabe Vega <theblindtech at gmail.com>
wrote:

> yep, go at this hard if you could. its just like when cabs and doctors
and
> who ever ask my 9 year old daughter to sign for daddy. um, no, she's
9, she
> can't legally sign documents.
>
>
> So speak up and see what his real agenda is, or kick it back to the
primple
> if it gets no where.
>
> One time i had to write a letter to the entire school board to get
action
> from a school, their website had all the email addresses of the board,
so
> one long email cc-ed to all of them did the trip.
>
> Gabe Vega
> (Phone voice and SMS: 623) 565-9357
> Check out the centralized location for all my Social Networks
> http://thebt.net
>
> On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Veronica Smith wrote:
>
> > So I sent our new teacher a note asking if he could email all class
notes
> to
> > me because my daughter is not always the best mail man.  So he
replied
> back
> > to me this morning and asked if he could meet with me.  He said that
the
> > students are responsible for copying the info as part of their
learning
> > experience. I read this info and pondered it.  Is he saying he
doesn't
> want
> > to email the info to me?  So I replied to him and said, I would be
happy
> to
> > meet with him if he would like.  I said I do want my daughter to
copy all
> > the notes down, but I also wanted to be one step ahead of her if
need be.
> > Am I asking too much of a well seasoned teacher.  He told Gab he has
> never
> > had a student's parent that was blind.  What does that have to do
with
> > anything?  Someone new to educate.  I guess I will have to schedule
a
> time
> > to educate him and his classroom. V
> >
> >
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