[blindkid] Please unsubscribe me

[Heather]

Lots of people go to the centers to learn other things, like technology 
training, braille, many compitant blind people are great with computers but 
can't read braille well or at all, or can live on their own, but with a 
lower quality of life because of not having such skills as cooking with a 
stove vs a microwave, or purchasing clothing that requires any but the 
simplest machine washing, because they can't set washers and dryers or iron, 
etc.  No guide dog school would accept someoone for training if their cane 
skills were not already very good, so while the institute might reasonably 
ask them for a few lessons on some new technique or with a demo of a new 
type of cane, to leave their dog in it's crate, not using it at all however 
during the training would more or less distroy the dog handler relationship 
and potentially the dog, period.  Hope that helps explain better.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Cunningham" <kim at gulfimagesphoto.com>
To: " (for parents of blind children)NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Please unsubscribe me


Heather,
I have a child who is attending one of the NFB training centers. One of the 
many reasons I wanted my daughter to attend the training center was to 
receive intensive O&M. I want her to feel free to travel anywhere, anytime 
she wants. Why would anyone want to take their guide dog to a facility where 
you would be learning cane travel? From what I understand, you can only get 
a guide dog AFTER you show competent cane travel skills. So, if someone 
wishes to attend a program at one of the centers, shouldn't you embrace all 
the training while there?
Just my thoughts on the subject. Have a nice summer.
Kim


--- On Thu, 7/1/10, Heather <craney07 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:


From: Heather <craney07 at rochester.rr.com>
Subject: [blindkid] Please unsubscribe me
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 8:55 AM


I always seem to be rubbing someone's fur the wrong way on this list, and 
that coupled with some disturbing information I have just come across has 
caused me to wish to unsubscribe from this and one other NFB list that I was 
on. That one had a link to unsubscribe, but this one directs me to a web 
page and I am at school right now, about to go out of town, and need to 
catch a bus, so no time to go poking around on the internet, when the server 
at school is running very sluggishly due to online administration of finals 
for summer courses today. Long story very short, I was under the impression 
that NFB's antiguidedog sentaments had disipated, but I have just spoken 
with two individuals who were being told at an NFB training center that 
their dogs had to stay in their rooms and that they were not to use them. I 
saw this come up in NAGDU and GDUI lists many many years ago, and assumed 
that something so backwards thinking and detremental to guide dog
 teams would have been resolved. You know what they say about assumptions. 
Bottom line, I do not feel that I am being an honest and responsible 
advocate of guide dogs if I continue to interact with an organization that 
premotes such detremental ideas. There are some awsum people on this list, 
and everyone, even the people I don't particularly like, all have awsum 
kids, it's about the list affiliation, and nothing more. If anyone ever 
wishes to write me off list in the future, my email address is 
craney07 at rochester.rr.com. Have a nice summer all.
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