[stylist] Schools run by blind people

Thu Mar 26 12:44:09 UTC 2009

Sight saving!  That name for schools/classes always made me roll my eyes.  I mean, come on, you're not saving any sight...so the name doesn't even fit.  Talk about political correctness run amuck? LOL!

Alan Wheeler
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:04
Subject: Re: [stylist] Schools run by blind people

> You meand the blind school?  No, it is a sight saving school.  Use your 
> vision to the best of your ability even if you can only read twenty words a 
> minute with a magnifier.
> 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: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:57 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] Schools run by blind people
> 
>> April, thank you. Does the Braille department adhere to a good philosophy
>> despite not being run by blind people?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of April Enderton
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:50 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Schools run by blind people
>>
>> Angela:
>>
>> The director of the Iowa Department for the Blind is blind, but the Iowa
>> Braille School is not run by blind people.  The Iowa Department for the
>> Blind is our adult orientation Center where Dr. Jernigan resided for 20
>> years.
>>
>> April
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Angela fowler
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:51 PM
>> To: 'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'
>> Subject: [stylist] Schools run by blind people
>>
>> Also, though they're not necessarily NFB centers, we have the Society for
>> the Blind in Sacramento and the Wisconsin school for the blind. Isn't the
>> school in Iowa also still run by blind people?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of David Andrews
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:43 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [stylist] question
>>
>> John:
>>
>> You are right, that the blind don't run much, teach much etc.  This is
>> changing some though -- primarily because of the NFB.  We now have three
>> adult rehab training centers, BLIND Inc. here in Minnesota, and one in
>> Denver nad another in Louisiana.  They are all run by blind persons, as is 
>> a
>> training program for rehab and mobility people at Louisiana Tech 
>> University.
>> We now also have the Jernigan Institute in Baltimore, run by blind 
>> persons,
>> doing training research and development.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> At 12:18 AM 3/25/2009, you wrote:
>>>Jim:
>>>
>>>What you wrote made me wonder about something.  In academic circles,
>>>for rehab of the blind, education of the blind, blind studies, and so
>>>on, are there many blind researchers and professors?
>>>
>>>I am very fearful that the answer may be no.
>>>
>>>The only thing I know is that I was truly shocked to learn that the
>>>Minnesota school for the blind has only one fully blind teacher.  One!
>>>Compare this to the school for the deaf, where eighty percent of the
>>>staff is deaf, all the way from administration down to houseparents.
>>>
>>>The academic journals on deafness, ASL, Deaf education, and so on, all
>>>are edited by Deaf scholars and the great majority of contributors, the
>>>professors and such, are Deaf.
>>>
>>>True, mainstreaming is prevalent, but this is most often a problem with
>>>school districts wanting to keep Deaf students because they're cash cows.
>>>They promise they'll provide all the resources blah blah.  But it's crap.
>>>
>>>Still, Deaf schools are going strong and there are many large Deaf
>>>programs within public schools, so there's a good social critical mass
>>>and also Deaf teachers there.  All the accredition programs, the
>>>teacher training programs for Deaf education, etc. all are run by Deaf
>> people.
>>>
>>>I hope that blind people run everything, too.  If that's not the case,
>>>that needs to change--or am I wrong to think that would be a good thing?
>>>
>>>John
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