[nabs-l] H.B. 2834: Closing the Door on the FutureofBlind Children

[Ashley Bramlett]

Joseph,
It sounds like despite opposition they are not listening and are going 
forward with closure.  The best you can do as an organized group now is to 
get the blind students that were enrolled at the school automatically 
enrolled in the nearest residential school, wich is the washington school 
for the blind.
Often students attending these schools have multiple disabilities or some 
problems where their  needs can't be met in an integrated public school 
setting.  THE IDEA law states children be placed in the least restrictive 
environment, meaning the environment where their learning is best and they 
aren't restricted.  For these students its been determined that they need a 
residential school.  So they should be placed in another residential school 
rather than be forced to attend their home public school with inadaquate 
services.

These kids are vunerable and I hope the fight prevails and they can at least 
attend another residential school.

Ashley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] H.B. 2834: Closing the Door on the FutureofBlind 
Children


> Fred Schroeder was out here last week from the national office.  He wrote 
> most of the press release that started this particular thread.
>
> Blindness organizations get it.  The rest of the world mostly couldn't 
> care less.
>
> Joseph
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:36:13AM -0400, Antonio Guimaraes wrote:
>> You can't get the spotlight?
>>
>> Where is a position from NFB National Office? Why not encourage the blind 
>> of the nation to flood legislative, and governor's offices with letters 
>> and phone calls? what about journalists, wouldn't they be interested in a 
>> story like this one?
>>
>> Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.
>
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