[stylist] Blind and segragation

[Alan Wheeler]

I never went to any school for the blind, but I know someone who has.  I think the only problem is that nowadays, the schools for the blind also serve multi-handicapped students as well, taking a lot of the focus off os someone strictly blind.  This makes for lower standards and less support for integrating the people who are blind, and blind alone, into regular schools at some point.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Crowd" <the_crowd at cox.net>
To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 09:43
Subject: [stylist] Blind and segragation


> Here is a big ol can of worms!
> 
> I have the opinion that blind children, at least for several years in their 
> schooling should go to schools with other blind children. There they can 
> learn their blind skills.
> 
> Braille literacy would go back up, there would be confidence in mobility 
> from the very beginning, home economics, typing, research, it would be a 
> whole balanced thing, rather then trying to learn blind skills in a school 
> for sighted people.
> 
> yeah, yeah, I know, main stream makes them like everyone else, which is a 
> load full, if you ask me. I've been in the public schools and I went to a 
> school for the blind and it gave me the chance to do things I wouldn't do in 
> public  schools. I was on the track team, cheer leading, swimming, bowling 
> teams. I learned how to cook, cut wood, shop, read Braille, type, we did 
> plays, competed against other blind schools and sighted schools in pros and 
> chorus. Instead they teach you a few fundimental things in public school, so 
> you don't accidently kill yourself out in the parking lot, so you can do 
> school work, but the skills that kids learned in those schools for the blind 
> are lost.
> 
> I find it sad that there are no more track teams, little five, wrestling and 
> cheer leading multi school competitions.
> 
> Blind children are not sighted children. They need to  be with their peers, 
> learn from one another, experience things among themselves. Then after they 
> have those things in place, go check out the public schools. That is my 
> opinion.
> 
> I know many people think that blindness is just a nucience, but it is a lot 
> more then that when you don't have the skills in place or the comarodery you 
> need to understand it. I went many years being ashamed of being blind and it 
> hurts people.
> 
> Atty
> 
> Life is short ...forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly,
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> 
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> 
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> people will forget what you did,
> but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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> 
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