[blindlaw] New guy

[Michael Fry]

Stay tough Tim.  Just keep fighting for what you want.  It'll work out
eventually.




On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Nightingale, Noel
<Noel.Nightingale at ed.gov>wrote:

> Tim:
>
> Each state vocational rehabilitation agency is required to have in place
> an ability to grant exceptions or waivers to policies that arbitrarily
> limit the kinds of services that can be included in an individualized
> plan for employment, such as a rule that an agency will not pay for
> graduate school.
>
> However, it does not sound like that is the stumbling block you are
> facing, rather it sounds like your vocational rehabilitation counselor
> has rejected your employment goal, in which case it seems that you need
> to go through the appeal process, which the agency is also required to
> have in place and should be on its website or in its policies or rules.
>
> Noel nightingale
>  Seattle, Washington
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of tim and vickie shaw
>  Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:26 AM
> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blindlaw] New guy
>
>
> Hello everyone, My name is Tim. I am new to the group.  I am wanting to
> start law school in the fall. Just keep running into obstacles at the
> moment *sighs* hard not to get discouraged. Hoping maybe can get a few
> good words and some guidance here. This is something I have always
> wanted to do I guess really in the back of my mind, but something I
> really didnt see myself ever actually doing. I want to do this so I can
> handle ADA cases and works as an advocate for children that may have to
> go through all that I did.
>
> I graduated from college in 2005 with a degree in Business Management.
> Not having any work experience I have had a very tough time finding a
> job. I worked for awhile for couple of companies that specialize in
> providing employment and training to disabiled individuals and "help"
> them. The frustrating experience working with these people only served
> to strengthen my resolve that I wanted to work to be able to "fix"
> things like this.
>
> I was desperate to get out of the situation I was in and decided to take
> on teaching. I have gotten my certification in Special Education and
> Business education but once again have been pumping my head for a year
> trying to get work to no avail. I had planned on working as a teacher
> whnile i went to law school. Due to my inability to find work in and out
> of teaching I have decided to just try and move forward to going to law
> school.
>
> I live in Texas and here it is law that blind individuals recieve a
> tuition and fee waiver as well as the government agency that works with
> the blind provides textbook vouchers and assistance.  I called my
> counselor at the Division for Blind Services to ask her about going back
> to school because she is the one that will have to help me to get my
> tuition waiver adn all of this, but she wouldnt even talk to me about
> it. She said that she doesnt think its reasonable for me to go back to
> school because how do they not know that they will give me the money to
> and then when I get out still wont be able to find work.
>
> So once again, I have hit my head against a wall when trying to deal
> with the very people that are supposed to be there to help. I am just
> getting extremely frustrated and mean time my marriage is going to hell
> because of my lack of being able to find word and seeming to jsut be
> sitting in a rut. I am lost for what to do.
>
> OK enough rambling, sorry for bothering yall with all of this jsut
> needed to get it off my chest and see if anyone had any good words for
> me.
>
>
> Tim Shaw
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