[stylist] question

Wed Mar 25 12:25:03 UTC 2009

Barbara, No one ever failed because they wanted to learn braille or sign 
language.  I'm sure if a child expressed an interest in larning braille an 
after school program could be found.  Or a parent could get the books from 
the library.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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> When you are grown up, sure.  But the grade schoolers don't, unless they 
> want to get a failing grade.
> Barbara
>
> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>
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> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:26 PM
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>> And I don't choose to learn Spanish,French or Arabic.  Again, my choice. 
>> The world has the ability to choose if they want to learn Braille or sign 
>> language.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:37 PM
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>>
>>> Lol, I keep mine right next to my keyboard. I never know when I'm going 
>>> to
>>> need it.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:10 PM
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>>> And yet society would rather our kids learn Spanish or some other 
>>> language
>>> in school.  Now I know if you want to travel abroad you must learn to 
>>> speak
>>> another's language.  But this is America!  We speak English and those 
>>> folks
>>> who don't can learn it.  We blind folks can't learn to read print.  The 
>>> deaf
>>> can't learn to hear.  So why don't the children learn a Braille and sign
>>> language instead.  Those are two "languages" that would help us all "get 
>>> on
>>> an even playing ground".
>>> When will their history books tell them about how the handicapped were
>>> opressed?  LOL.  I realy don't think anyone but the handicapped are 
>>> opressed
>>> in this country.
>>> I'm stepping down off my soap box.  Oops!  It must have gotten wet 
>>> because
>>> it practically slid out from under me.  I guess that's what you get for
>>> leaving it out in the rain.
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of 
>>> whom
>>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>>
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>>> From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:56 PM
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>>>> Lori:
>>>>
>>>> I love the words blind and deaf.  I abhor anything with impaired in it.
>>>>
>>>> Although the definition of blind may say one who cannot see, and
>>>> that's a negative description, we still have the opportunity to
>>>> neutralize the word itself and have it convey something else entirely,
>>>> into something that's cool.  Same with deaf.  We can take it and turn
>>>> it around, and associate it with culture, pride, ASL, all sorts of
>>>> great and positive things.
>>>>
>>>> But you can't neutralize and turn around a term like sight impaired.
>>>> Tthat
>>>> term does two very bad, bad, bad things.  First, it implies that sight
>>>> is the ideal, that it's right, and what we SHOULD have, and that if we
>>>> don't have it, we SHOULD want it.  This is society talking, "Sight is
>>> better."
>>>>
>>>> Second, the term implies that we're broken or we're short of the
>>>> ideal, or we've fallen from the grace of what society says is normal.
>>>> This is very bad, bad, bad.
>>>>
>>>> Does NFB merely "prefer" the word blind?  It shouldn't.  it should
>>>> embrace it absolutely.
>>>>
>>>> John
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