[blparent] EXTERNAL:Re: 5th grade teacher

Thu Aug 19 14:36:06 UTC 2010

V, 
Why do you think he has a problem with you being blind? 
You loved this guy when you first met him, what has changed? I'm being
serious here, not mean. It might be that you two are stuck in your
paradigms, he hears"Mama doesn't think or want her kid to do the class
assignments" and you hear "He has a problem with my blindness". 
As for the meeting time, he may have set up the time, but you agreed to
it. If the time doesn't work, switch it. You are half of of the
interface. 
Know too that you can tell him he is not to comment to Gab or to other
students or to the class as a whole about your blindness. I don't know
that you want to do this, but you can. I also don't know that you want
to change the meeting time, but again, you are allowed to reschedule The
time slot he proposed sounds reasonable, Gab won't have the dreaded
"stay after class" vibe, and this issue will be resolved at the start of
the day. If it isn't, you have the option of getting the big guns
involved, something you can't do as easily late on Friday. Will Gab be
present at this meeting? If not, you may need to reschedule and that is
what you should say. Gab can also go to a friend's house and catch the
bus there. You can take a cab, or maybe as the other mom for a ride, or
walk whichever weather and distance and health permit. 
You do have a bunch of ways to handle this.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Veronica Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:35 PM
To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: [blparent] 5th grade teacher

I personally think he has a problem with it because I am blind.
Hopefully I
am barking up the wrong tree, but I've asked the same thing of all the
new
teachers and they all have sent all class notes without reservation.
I'm
not asking for the answers to math problems or any assignments. I'll let
you
know what happens Friday morning.  Why couldn't it have been a time when
I
had a ride or when my husband was in town. v

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On
Behalf Of Andrew Wagner
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:48 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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