[nabs-l] Blind and visually impaired students in education?

[Laura Glowacki]

Ashley's thread made me think of this.  Over the past several 
years, I have heard of at least 5 or 6 different blind or 
visually impaired students at 5 or 6 different schools being 
discouraged from going in to anything in the education field. 
Tactics have ranged from intimidating departmental meetings to 
find out exactly how the blind person would do everything they 
were expected to do as an education major even before the major 
was fully declared (unrealistic as even sighted students don't 
know that when they first begin), to down right being forced out 
of the program towards the end of their degree through obvious 
discrimination and not just because they were poor students 
and/or teachers..

Is anyone else hearing stories like these?

Laura