[Ct-nfb] School punishes blind child by taking away cane and replacingit with a pool noodle

[Justin Salisbury]

Hello Edward,

Thanks for sharing this article with us all. Kate and I were reading it earlier this week, and I cannot imagine the differences between handling this issue in a world with the National Federation of the Blind and handling this issue in a hypothetical world where the Federation had never existed. 

If not for the Federation, people would not even think of this as a problem; in fact, the child probably never would have had a cane in the first place. It is my hope that our Missouri affiliate and national organization can help amend this situation and educate all involved with all the swiftness and finesse in the world. 

This is a great reminder that we must all do our part to educate the public so that this does not happen again anywhere, especially in Connecticut.

Yours,

Justin Salisbury

Justin Salisbury - Running Thunder Phoenix
Graduate Student
Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness
Louisiana Tech University
Email: jms132 at latech.edu
Twitter: @SalisburyJustin

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Good morning all,

I wish I was writing with cheerier news this morning, but I felt the need to make sure everyone has seen this.

Please see forwarded message below.


Staff Writer posted: " KANSAS CITY, MO - Parents are outraged after they say an elementary school punished their blind child by replacing his cane with a pool noodle. Dakota Nafzinger attends Gracemor Elementary School in Kansas City.  The 8-year-old was born without eye" 
	

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KANSAS CITY, MO - Parents are outraged after they say an elementary school punished their blind child by replacing his cane with a pool noodle. Dakota Nafzinger attends Gracemor Elementary School in Kansas City.  The 8-year-old was born without eyes - something in the medical world known as Bilateral Anopthalmia. School District Spokeswoman Michelle Cronk [.]

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