[Pibe-division] Interesting job available at the Maryland School for the Blind

[Smith, Pauline L]

Good Morning,

I share Marianne's sentiments.  I was told that a person like me who is interested in teaching should get an undergraduate degree in something like social work, then get my master's degree in blind rehabilitation teaching.  I appreciate and respect any good person who chooses to enter this field.  However, my passion was and still is to teach children (preferably in a  single school).

Blind people should be able to get jobs in the fields/areas where they have the strongest skills and choose alternates if they need to get an immediate position that is not exacly in the chosen field like everyone else.  It is a burden to continue to support large numbers of unemployed and underemployed individuals just because society doesn't expect them to be productive.

Pauline Smith, TVI
Braille Instructor


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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 5:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] Interesting job available at the Maryland School for the Blind

It is a burden on society to support blind people because they want hire us to do the jobs we are qualified and love to do.  Should I be forced to work in a career field that is not right for me because I am blind?  Today, the job push for all blind people is customer service and massage therapy.  I can't stand to touch poeple's skin if I don't know them well and I would be bored being a call center employee.  Those are great jobs if that is your interest but it is not mine.  I love to teach and that is my passion.  I love to teach children.  All of my work experience has been with people with disabilities. I believe a TVI is a natural fit for my passion and experience.  I think there are others who feel exactly as I do.  I have chosen to teach braille and technology from my home via virtual instruction so I don't have to deal with transportation.  I hope somone will decide to challenge the failure to provide a driver as a reasonable accommodation.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 5:25 PM, adrijana prokopenko via PIBE-Division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org<mailto:pibe-division at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
Blind Piano tuners actually express the same concerns saying they need
not one but a few more people to come there for them and do some of
the things that only sighted people could do while they tune the piano
and they say they are paying a fortune or giving up their jobs in the
end because they can no longer manage that.

On 3/13/16, Sandy Bishop via PIBE-Division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org<mailto:pibe-division at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
> My daughter is receiving services (starting tomorrow) from 2 itinerant TVIs
> working from the Outreach department of MSB on a rotating basis (2 out of
> every 3 days). They are covering the workload for a teacher who recently
> retired in my county. It would be difficult (but not impossible) for a
> non-driving TVI to do this job. They drive an hour from MSB/Baltimore-area
> to my daughter's school to work with her for an hour. They have other
> students at other schools in this county. They have worked in other
> counties in Maryland. Arranging transportation from home (wherever that is)
> to another county/school district, working with a caseload of students,
> possibly not all located at the same school could be a nightmare. In my
> area, public transportation is a joke and I have no idea how reliable or
> timely the other options are. It could be why they are including the
> driving qualification. Not saying it's right, but I can see the
> difficulties of a non-driver to get to the various job/school sites.
>
>
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>> The requirement for a class C drivers' license is where I believe
>> there is possible discrimination.  Is that an essential function of
>> the job or a reasonable accommodation?  Many blind people have had
>> jobs requiring a the ability to travel from one location to another
>> and different options have been worked out.
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
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