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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Hello All:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>We talk about a separate agency for the blind and a separate school for our blind kids. Today, I want to share an article from 1904 about the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind. So, for more than 120 years, many have asked for a separation of the blind and deaf schools. The reasons are still the same as they were back then.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Peggy Chong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>COLORADO INDEX., <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>DECEMBER 1, 1904 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since these pages are always open for any articles or items pertaining to the well being of <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>the blind the conductor does not hesitate to quote from an article now and then in order to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>show to the readers just what the consensus of opinion is in regard to certain debatable subjects. Prof. li. II. Johnson who has charge of the pages regarding the blind in the West Virginia Tablet has a way of saying things right from his very heart and since there is scarcely a more whole-souled advocate for the highest good of the blind in the United States, one naturally feels that items written by him ought to appear just as they were written. Before discussing or at least commenting on his editorial we will quote it which is as follows: — <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"The Washingtonian * and the "Rocky Mountain Leader" come with persistent kindness to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>my private address, and, strange to say, I receive these papers with exemplary regularly <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>from the office. I am none the less grateful to the good friends who send them directly to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>me, and should be glad to use a privilege extended to me long ago of sending the Tablet <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>to any one who should be indicated as the conductor of a page like this in either of these, or any other papers from schools with a blind department. The other papers reach me with <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>so much irregularity that I cannot keep up with the progress of their work as I could <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>wish. I am sure it is only the result of an in advertance, which I do not seek to locate; <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>but it is sorely inconvenient sometimes. Thus I have missed No. 3 of the "Notes of Travel," <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>running for several of the early weeks of the term in the California News. 1 would fain <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>hope that Mr. Caldwell gave some account of the Association of Instructors of the Blind, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>which was held during this month at the L. P. Exposition, and which he attended with delightful regularity. I am sorry to have missed anything he may have written on the subject. The ssociation has been mentioned with sparing hand if at all, by many of the papers, while I see numerous references to the Conference of Principals held at St. Louis only a few weeks ago. Not surely because the matter is less dear to the hearts of the dual schools, but, for some unexplained reason, which I would gladly hope has been merely an oversight. It is not to be wondered at In the schools where the blind are gathered into schools with the deaf, they are, I believe, without exception, largely in the minority, so low, sometimes, as four to one, and the rule for the greatest good to the greatest number must prevail. I cannot forbear the thought that this disparity of numbers ought to attract some wise and effective attention. I am aware that there is an inequality between the classes, and I thank God for it; but there are more blind children than appear in these <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>schools, and they ought to be brought into the enjoyment of the advantages that have been <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>so liberally provided for them. 1 note in the last Ohio Report, that Supt. Smead has again <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>had recourse to the Census Bureau, with such encouraging results as to have brought to the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>shelter of his great Institution more than a hundred new pupils within fourteen months. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The fact seems to point a moral." <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The conductor of these pages of the Colorado Index agrees with Prof. Johnson <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>regarding the exchange of papers, at least, in those instances where there are conductors <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>appointed to take charge of the news which may be of interest to the blind as well as to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>those who are in any way interested in the welfare of the blind as teachers and others. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As to the report of the meeting of the Association for the Instructors of the Blind <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>which met in St. Louis in July the excellent one given by Prof. Johnson is the only one the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>writer has seen thus far. It has been the hope on the part of several that a regular printed <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>report might appear before the school year was too far advanced, thus giving ample time <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>in which to discuss some of the papers which were presented. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That the heads of a number of these dual institutions were not present at the Association <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>for the Instructors of the Blind does not necessarily follow that their very souls are not in the work to an equal degree in both departments. At the same time those who are engaged in the work no matter whether it be for the deaf or for the blind these things do not pass unnoticed. To a certain extent it seems natural for the minority department to look with perhaps altogether too critical an eye upon those who may be in authority. Colorado has been singularly blessed by having those at the head of the institution who have had some knowledge of the blind before undertaking the larger duty of managing a dual school. There can be no doubt but what those in charge of these institutions are all looking toward segregation as soon as the schools get large enough to make it feasible from a financial standpoint, for all will admit that it is from this standpoint alone that the two schools are housed under the same roof. There are instances such as New Mexico and one of the Dakotas in which after careful consideration it was deemed best to have complete segregation at the very beginning and in other instances the legislatures were wise in making provision for a future segregation. Were the methods of discipline, and education similar the question of separation would never arise but since there is nothing in common the question will naturally arise from time to time. The conductor does not know how it is with other dual schools but he feels confident that with the intelligent management of the Colorado Institution the question of segregation will eventually be settled properly, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>