[Nfbf-l] State School
Mark Tardif
markspark at bellsouth.net
Thu Apr 7 00:20:43 UTC 2011
You got it, Sherri. From another socially immature, inept school for the
blind educated kid, this defense is much needed.
Mark Tardif
Welcome to my planet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] State School
> Bravo Mark! Right on! Thank you for defending us poor. socially inept,
> immature, incapable School for the Blind educated people. I have not had
> time to look at e-mails, so I am playing catch-up.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Tardif" <markspark at bellsouth.net>
> To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 8:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] State School
>
>
>> I'm not sure we can stereotype people who attended schools for the blind
>> and type cast them like that. I attended a school for the blind and I
>> lived with a friend who was mainstreamed. Guess what, I think she was
>> much less likely to want to join the real world, at times I got the sense
>> she wanted to live in a "blind ghetto." Public schooling can be brutal
>> on a lot of kids, and if you are at all different, forget it. I also had
>> a boss once who was also blind and we worked together in the early
>> eighties. He thought that mainstreaming sounded good on paper, but he had
>> had a chance to observe and talk to some of these people who were
>> mainstreamed, and was disappointed. He said they came across as cynical.
>> apathetic, etc. So, just one man's opinion, it appears to be different
>> for different children. Also, I would say that the NFB influence, as
>> shown by centers like Louisiana and Colorado, seems to try to emphasize
>> that we cannot expect the world to provide us extra privileges that we
>> need to adapt to it. So I don't know what happened at Daytona, and
>> anyone may enlighten me, but I doubt it was the influence of the NFB that
>> caused it to go downhill.
>>
>> Mark Tardif
>> Welcome to my planet
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kirk" <kvharmon54 at gmail.com>
>> To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 12:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] State School
>>
>>
>>> Joann, I so agree with you on this topic! I, too, have seen many blind
>>> individuals that act so childlike compared to others and have wondered
>>> why.
>>> Why some are always figitting, and others are not. I was told it was due
>>> to
>>> their parents allowing them to do what they wished without letting them
>>> know it is not polite to rock or figit all the time in their seets,etc.
>>> I
>>> was also told it was because they were placed in their playpens for
>>> hours to
>>> keep them safe and they would get extremely bored so they developed
>>> habits
>>> that were very distracting to others in a room and such. These behaviors
>>> are
>>> what the majority of our population (sighted) see and assume we are not
>>> prepared to be on an even keel with them and until we try and feel
>>> comfortable about talking about these foibles with some of usletting
>>> them
>>> know this behavior is not acceptable and quite rude as well, we will
>>> have
>>> diminished and negative attention brought our way. Just one man's
>>> opinion is
>>> all! Kirk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Joanne" <jdking09 at earthlink.net>
>>> To: <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 12:21 PM
>>> Subject: [Nfbf-l] State School
>>>
>>>
>>> I know first hand what a shambles the Daytona School became after it was
>>> influenced by NFB's theory of teaching independents to the blind. If
>>> I
>>> were
>>> in charge I would first have every student believe in their dignity.
>>> Then
>>> I
>>> would teach them to believe that they can achieve anything if they
>>> really
>>> want
>>> to. and the other important thing is to join society without thinking
>>> that
>>> they
>>> need special treatment. You can't burn the candle at both ends. And
>>> that
>>> is
>>> what they had done at the center. That's why the school is not on
>>> track.
>>> The people that I have known before NFB's influence had a better chance
>>> of
>>> learning all this. After that forget it.
>>> I personally grew up in public and private schools and learned my own
>>> independents because I wanted to. I agree that one can always pick out
>>> a
>>> blind
>>> student who was educated at a school for the blind including one like
>>> Daytona.
>>> They act like a child..
>>> So whether it is NFB or ACB or anything else. A blind person can be so
>>> called
>>> Normal if treated like they are normal.
>>> We are a very small percentage of society. Therefore, it is us, who
>>> needs
>>> to
>>> comply with the majority.
>>> Please pass this on to the NFB and the ACB and any other Organizations
>>> who
>>> feel
>>> that special privileges is the only way to go. I guess what I am trying
>>> to
>>> say
>>> is stop degrading us.
>>>
>>>
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