[blindkid] how would you handle this PSAT issue?

[Carol Castellano]

Truly no excuse for that.  What could possibly be going through their heads?
CC

At 09:57 AM 9/30/2011, you wrote:
>David is attending the same school my daughter Kayleigh attended 4 
>yrs. ago. This same scenario happened for her. The accommodations 
>were not filed in time and she was unable to take the PSAT. The 
>school principal and LSSP are still the same. They don't have the 
>excuse of NOT knowing the timeline for filing the paperwork. Perhaps 
>I should have yelled louder and made a lasting impression on the issue......
>
>Regards,
>Kim Cunningham
>
>From: Sally Thomas <seacknit at gmail.com>
>To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)" 
><blindkid at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:30 AM
>Subject: [blindkid] how would you handle this PSAT issue?
>
>Our school district has decided to give the 8-10 grade students a 
>chance to practice taking the PSAT (in 8th grade it is a pre-PSAT) 
>prior to the 11th grade "real" test.  The 8th grade test was new 
>last year when my son was in 8th grade and they told me there wasn't 
>a braille version.  I asked about the PSAT for 9th grade and the 
>assured me that they were getting the accommodations set up and that 
>he would take the test.  I asked again before the school year 
>started and they said that he'd be ready to go.  This morning I 
>received an email from the high school counselor telling me that the 
>funding for the test was approved late so they won't be able to get 
>a braille version of the test.  Mind you the test is next week so 
>they must have known this for a while.
>
>Doesn't the College Board have braille copies of the test on 
>hand?  Can any of you tell me what you think the real reason is for 
>the test not being available?  I already told the counselor that I 
>was very unhappy with this and asked for the contact information of 
>the people who made the decision to give the test to all but the 
>blind kids (probably not the most diplomatic approach).  Of course I 
>have not had a response but I am wondering who would be best to 
>contact on this.  I am trying to fight the urge to contact everyone 
>in authority until I get some feedback from some of you who are 
>informed but a little less emotionally charged about this.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Sally Thomas
>
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