[stylist] Blind and segregation

Judith Bron jbron at optonline.net
Wed Dec 31 17:11:19 UTC 2008 

Donna, One of my clients is a retired school teacher.  She was brilliant as 
a teacher but, unfortunately, without parental support many of her students 
graduated school illiterate.  The law already states that schools have to 
teach kids how to read.  So why are kids graduating so illiterate that they 
can't even fill out a job application?  The laws have no control on how a 
parent encourages or discourages a child's education.  You can write the 
legislation, but if parents aren' behind the child receiving the legislated 
education what are you going to do about it?  Put all failing kids in foster 
homes?  Jail parents who are too busy working or whatever to encourage the 
education?  Like I said, it is beyond legislation.  We can't legislate dire 
consequences to parents of failing children.  Braille is in the same 
category as literacy for sighted kids.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Blind and segregation


> Judith,
> Not sure what you're saying.  If legislation is worthless and school 
> officials aren't going to listen to the parents of blind kids, what is 
> your solution?  Are you saying it's hopeless?  I still say that the over 
> burdened, uninformed parents who don't currently stand up for the teaching 
> of  Braille to their kids will be somewhat supported and vallidated by 
> knowing that the law insists upon it. Donna
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> Judith Bron wrote:
>> Most schools don't care that the majority of the high school seniors, who 
>> have been pushed ahead with social promotion, aren't literate enough to 
>> complete a job application.  The teachers get their paychecks, great 
>> benefits and are expected to show up daily in the classroom.  They do 
>> this. But they aren't going to take their orders from parents whose 
>> children are illiterate.  Legislation will provide only one more layer in 
>> a huge bureaucracy.  It accomplishes nothing.  I'm sure that at one point 
>> all children graduating from the public schools were capable of reading 
>> and writing.  That goal is still in the school mandate, but is ignored. 
>> If they don't care about sighted kids, then why should they care about a 
>> visually impaired child?
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
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>> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Blind and segregation
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>>> Parents don't insist because they are strong-armed by the public school 
>>> officials with budget concerns who tell them that their child doesn't 
>>> need Braille.  We still live in a world where authority figures are 
>>> deferred to, whether they're right or not.  I think it would be easier 
>>> to convert the school authorities with a change in the legislation than 
>>> trying to find every parent who isn't standing up for their kids and 
>>> train them in time to avoid having the kid miss out on their education. 
>>> Surely, the parents who join the NFB are given some support for standing 
>>> up for Braille literacy, but how many parents don't belong?  I really 
>>> think the schools must be forced to do it.
>>> Donna
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>>> LoriStay at aol.com wrote:
>>>> No.   The main reason is that parents don't insist, loud and long, with 
>>>> advocates behind them when the schools balk.   Braille has been taught 
>>>> to the two blind children in Chatterton School in Merrick, and all 
>>>> their work is presented to them in Braille.   Actually, one of them is 
>>>> now in Middle school, and I've no idea what they do there, but her 
>>>> background is solid because her parents insisted.
>>>> Lori
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>>>> In a message dated 12/29/08 2:26:11 PM, penatwork at epix.net writes:
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>>>>> The main reason that Braille is not taught in public schools is
>>>>> two-fold.
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