[nabs-l] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
It's someone who knows how to read English being asked to teach French. Of 
course the teacher should know French German and Italian in order to teach 
languages, but they are just used to teaching younger kids basic grammar. 
That basic grammer doesn't cut it for older students.
I wanted to learn nemith and music and she just sat there while I went 
through a Hadley course. She didn't participate very much at all. When I 
asked to learn music, she was like Oh no, I don't know about that, there 
isn't any course that teaches it and I don't know it...
Of course she was talking off the top of her head and hadn't been doing her 
homework...
As a student I'm expected to constantly be checking what's going on in my 
field and learning about as much as I can. That won't stop when I'm a 
professional, it will get harder! Just because you graduate from school 
doesn't mean you can be a slacker and still call yourself a professional!
School districts and agencies need to separate the dead weights from the 
active teachers and get rid of them. Because the only thing that a bad TVI 
does to someone that's more advanced than they are is bring them down and 
that's the most terrible thing one can do to an enthusiastic student.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Arielle Silverman
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 1:06 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue

Could you imagine a school hiring a reading teacher who didn't know
how to read or write? Is that any worse than hiring a TVI who doesn't
really know Braille?
Arielle

On 5/25/12, Koby Cox <kobycox at gmail.com> wrote:
> Teacher of the visually impaired.
> Koby.
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