[stylist] more on the question of the 70% thing - : Articleshowing what parents & kids are facing

[justin williams]

I don't like the 70 percent unemployed either.  I rather like your
estimation. What they should be checking is how many of the blind get
promoted as an equal to their sighted counterparts.  

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 11:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] more on the question of the 70% thing - :
Articleshowing what parents & kids are facing

Your comment here is so true.
Block Quote:
"Guys, too many state rehab  services in this country are operating under a
philosophy of low expectations of the blind.)"

One of my fellow students in rehab was a very sharp and really nice guy - he
was sidelined from his very good technical job due to Stargatz - he was an
airplane mechanic.  After I was around him awhile, I saw what a very good
person he was with other people and very patient.  When I suggested he might
be interested in going to school to pursue a teaching career, in front of
his counselor, she about beat me down with a ball bat and went on a tirade
explaining why a blind person could not deal with a classroom. She sited lot
os very bad things that she says goes on in classrooms "these day" and how a
blind person could never even think of pursuing such a career.

OK, I though, Lynda keep your big mouth shut!
>From my own teaching experiences, I could definitely believe that this young
man could be a teacher - but, hey, she's the vision professional, not me. I
often wonder what became of this young man.

I see the same low expectations, or no expectations, exhibited in my county
blind association

Lynda





----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] more on the question of the 70% thing - : 
Articleshowing what parents & kids are facing


> Donna and others
>
> To answer you --- I am not in a position to do so. And I really do not 
> want
> to speculate to far on this. I am not afraid to do some speculation, but 
> for
> sure I must say up front that I have not been privy to a discussion that
> explains this recording of facts. (One weird outcome resulting from this
> number that has been used for decades, is that some of the really good 
> rehab
> services find it more difficult in presenting their need for funding, yet
> alone increased moneys to do their work. After all --- the congress hears
> that that over the decades of spending on rehab, there has been no
> improvement of the status of employment of the blind, so why throw good
> money after bad?) The dramatization of the high percentage of unemployment
> is indeed a eye catcher! (You know what --- I swear that the first wording
> of this 70 plus percent of blind people being unemployed was once 
> presented
> as - "70% of the blind are either unemployed or under-employed." I
> personally like this combo of un and under, because I think it actually 
> more
> correctly outlines the employment blight of the blind - I mean, just think
> of the workshop people and those of us who hit that glass-blind ceiling of
> promotion or initial trust to be taken into a professional job and have to
> start and get stuck in a lesser position! (I know more of these last types
> of employed blind guys than I know those who are doing equal jobs with
> equally trained and smart sighted counterparts.
>
>
> (Guys, too many state rehab  services in this country are operating under 
> a
> philosophy of low expectations of the blind.)
>
> (I invite anyone more knowledgeable in the 70% stats that we use to please
> help us understand this issue.)
>
>
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