[il-talk] Blind defend rights of blind students

[Connie Davis]

This should have been in response to the North Avenue beach post by Glenn.


-----Original Message-----
From: il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Connie Davis
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 6:15 PM
To: 'NFB of Illinois Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [il-talk] Blind defend rights of blind students

There is a White Sox fundraiser, for the chapter, immediately following the
chapter meeting.

Connie Davis
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-----Original Message-----
From: il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Glenn Moore
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 5:32 PM
To: il-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [il-talk] Blind defend rights of blind students

That was an interesting piece of information.
So it's said that we're under fire. In life you have to pick your battles
and this is one worth winning. Quality public (or generally accessible)
education is not only the most fundamental institution and valuable asset of
a great society (because it arms its people against auto-incompetence and
protects from descrimination and exploitation), but is far more valuable to
those in this society who are dispossessed, marginalized, at-risk or
underrepresented. The opportunity to advance our lives through aquiring
knowledge and becoming wiser and more skilled within a playing field that
obstructs these efforts to the least reasonable extent and creates the most
equal opportunity for a person to experience consequences that derive from
their own efforts and actions, and not from circumstances put upon them is a
prime priority for the blind person with foresight (as well as any other
minority individual); and this level playing field is practically the
 definition of democratic and free society. 
The effort required to offer this bar of fairness could not be much simpler.
We aren't talking about some billion dollar infrastructure project to
retrofit our cities or any highly inconvenient for the many mandate. It is
simply the requirement th use infirmational materials that are, if not
equally, at least accessible at all. As technology progresses and schools
compete ever more with the new generation online schools, it will become
difficult and rediculous to deny that it requires more effort to not offer
equal access than to select the tools that are most useful to these schools'
own students to be the mostcompetitive blind americans possible.
That's what i think.    

-G. ROBERT MOORE III


      


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