[Nfbmo] Story about blind child having cane taken away

Dacia Cole dacia.luck at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 00:03:07 UTC 2014


I'd love to see your interview, hopefully there will be a link online somewhere.

Dacia

On 12/17/14, Ruby Polk via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Thanks to All especially Gary Wunder, Jeff Wright and Lawrence Lux for
> notifying us of the Kansas City Cane situation. As of now,  the North
> Kansas
> City School
> District has returned the Cane to Dakota. They have sent out a Press
> release
> stating that they made a very bad mistake and that it would not happen
> again. Since Shelia is out of Town, I will give a News briefing on Camera
> for the 5-30 PM Fox Four TV News Station. Ruby Polk
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gary Wunder via
> Nfbmo
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:43 PM
> To: 'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'
> Subject: [Nfbmo] Story about blind child having cane taken away
>
> I am sure many of you have read the story about the North Kansas City
> school
> that took away the cane of an eight-year-old child and tried replacing it
> with a swimming pool noodle. We have written to offer the child a free
> white
> cane, have made an offer to the school district to become involved, and
> have
> suggested to the parents that we might be worthy advocates if they need. On
> a very refreshing note, Lawrence Luck called the superintendent of the
> school, his call was returned, the superintendent said that the actions of
> the school were unfortunate and would not happen again, and it is
> definitely
> Lawrence's take that the school is interested in learning and doing right
> by
> the young man. I'll be interested in hearing if others of you have
> reactions. Hats off to Lawrence for this contact.
>
>
>
> Gary Wunder, President
>
> National Federation of the Blind of Missouri
>
>
>
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