[nfbmi-talk] Look what I found on the Kalamazoo Gazette Website!

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Sat May 28 11:15:58 UTC 2011


Wow! And double wow!
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Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Look what I found on the Kalamazoo Gazette Website!


> Blind school update: Michigan Department of Labor has 'begun reinstatement 
> process'
> Published: Friday, May 27, 2011, 3:56 PM     Updated: Friday, May 27, 
> 2011, 7:32 PM
> By Rosemary Parker | Kalamazoo Gazette MLive.com
> KALAMAZOO - The reinstatement process has begun.
> The former director of the Michigan Commission for the Blind Training 
> Center in Kalamazoo, fired in February, 2010 in a dispute about a 
> marksmanship class offered to students, said she is "breathless" at the 
> thought that she will be reinstated to her former position.
>
> Friday afternoon Mario Morrow, director of communications for the Michigan 
> Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth, which oversees the training 
> center, said via e-mail that "the department has read the order and has 
> begun the process of reinstatement."
>
> An arbitration hearing on Boone's dismissal was held in January; earlier 
> this week the decision by the hearing officer was announced that Christine 
> Boone should get her job back, with back pay and benefits. The state 
> initially had not commented about that finding.
>
> "I'm breathless. This is news to me," Boone said in response to the news.
>
> "I am thrilled and delighted. I'm just so ready to get back to making 
> Michigan a much better place for blind people to live and work than it is 
> today."
>
> Boone was fired after the director of the Michigan Commission for the 
> Blind in Lansing became upset to learn of a marksmanship class being 
> offered at the school, a year-round training facility for blind adults.
>
> In the class, blind students used spring-powered pellet guns to shoot at 
> targets.
>
>
>
> Related stories
> Arbitrator rules Boone should get her job back. (May 25, 2011)
>
> Marksmanship class leads to director's dismissal (Feb. 21, 2010)
>
>
>
> Boone said she was given verbal consent to offer the class; her boss, 
> Patrick Cannon, denied that, and said the class violated state safety and 
> firearms rules.
>
> At the arbitration hearing, the record shows, Cannon argued Boone had 
> deceived him, intending to use the class to embarrass him.
>
> "I spoke with my lawyer yesterday, I am going to want to have some 
> conversation to make sure we are all on the same page," Boone said Friday. 
> "I want to be sure that Mr. Cannon understands there was never any 
> deception or attempt at such so that I'll be able to do the job, to make a 
> difference.
>
> Although she hasn't yet hear details of the "process of reinstatement," 
> Boone said she would begin to clear her calendar of commitments she made 
> during her 15 months of unemployment, and hopes to be back at work within 
> a few weeks.
>
>
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