[nabs-l] H.B. 2834: Closing the Door on the Future of Blind Children

[Beth]

Me, too.  I may not believe in schools for the blind necessarily as a
means to educate the blind, but imagine the lives of blind students
without the current school for the blind in Florida.
Beth

On 5/26/09, T. Joseph Carter <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com> wrote:
> State sovereignty.  They don't have to have the school if they can
> provide the services.  Of course, the services are inadequate
> already, and they've just been cut even further.
>
> This is a land grab.  There is a back-room deal brewing here between
> special interests and lawmakers.  We can't seem to get the spotlight
> to stay on these people long enough to make them accountable.
>
> Joseph
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 09:59:15PM -0600, clinton waterbury wrote:
>> Wow...  How can they do this in the name of money?  It seems like the
>> future of the blind already rests in the hands of rehab councelers in
>> some cases, and this bill would open up the door for the future of the
>> blind in general, only it would be in the hands of the legeslature.  If I
>> were one of the students or parents of the students at the Origon school
>> for the blind I would be highly ticked off at the whole thing, and would
>> take to the federal level, and there would be a hell of a fight.
>
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