[stylist] Blind and segregation

[LoriStay at aol.com]

What has the NFB done for students?   If I miss something, kindly fill in for 
me!
1. Made sure Braille is the default reading system for blind children.
2. Negotiated with publishers, and later with legislators to get textbooks 
available in electronic format in a timely manner so blind students could keep 
up with their peers.
3. Pushed the same kind of legislation into law for college students.
4. Gone to court any number of times to be sure a student would be taught 
braille when the schools tried to say he or she didn't need it.
5.   Established parents divisions so that parents could be made aware of 
their blind children's needs from an early age.
6.   Encouraged the use of the white cane for small children so they would 
not have to learn how to get to the corner when they reached 18.
7.   Insisted that blind children ought to be held to the same standards as 
sighted children, with age appropriate goals.

I'm sure there is more.
Lori
In a message dated 12/31/08 2:33:49 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:


> What you could legislate are guidelines to school boards for visually
> impaired or legally blind students.  But then you are depending on school
> districts to enforce a law that will cost them more money.  Perhaps you
> could lobby the NEA, but don' count on results.  Their priorities go in this
> order:  salary, benefits, more control over students to garentee docile
> behaviors and on time dismissals.  No, I don't have much faith in unions who
> are handed more and more money each year to come up with negative results.
> Want to go this route?  You will feel better for making a dent in a failed
> system, but it won't make a darned bit of difference to blind students.
> 




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