[Nfbf-l] Fw: ideas for the Center in FL

[RJ Sandefur]

Here's what the NFB Center should like according to Beth! RJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beth" <thebluesisloose at gmail.com>
To: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:26 PM
Subject: ideas for the Center in FL


> First off, I think since the Daytona center is doing the bsolute 
> wrong thing, here's my idea for what the center should look like:
> 1. The center must have apartments located at a certain distance 
> away.
> 2. The Center should at least allow all the people to live in 
> apartments, in fact, it should require it.
> 3. A visual evaluation is fine, but only to see if sleepshades 
> are required.  See below.
> 4. Sleepshades will be worn when somebody's eye report reads 
> thatthe visual acuiity is something in one eye and something in 
> another.  The visual acuity in both eyes must be zero in order to 
> be classified as someone who doesn't wear sleepshades.  I'd be a 
> good example.
> 
> Also, I'd recommend a criminal background check on nybody 
> entering the Center so we don't get any Ricardos out there.  
> Also, we need to allow the adult men and women to visit each 
> other as often as possible, and the recreation activities 
> should be up to the student, not the staff.  We will have a 
> philosophy class all the time, every day at eleven-thirty 
> a.m.  I'd have everybody take core curricula, including 
> Braille and Tech.  I hated core curricula classes, but 
> still.  It's a good idea so that everyone is literate and 
> can use alternative techniques.  Psychological evaluations?  
> BULLSHIT!  If somebody has a medical history, let's just 
> help them find medical insurance and get them a practicing 
> nurse or doctor to give them medical stuff.  Also, the BBE 
> program in your previous attachment is fine, but the 
> vendinng stand thingy should not be the only option for 
> blind people in Florida.  It's awful.
> I suggest the apartments be located five miles away, so that the 
> blind students travel by bus to get there every day.  We should 
> at least have some sort of confidence-building classes like wood 
> shop like whuat my good friend Merle teaches.  He's awesome.  
> Also, there should be blind instructors, like my friends Merle, 
> Monique, Maureen, and others.  God, if you could only see what 
> sort of crap the Dayton center has become.  Maureen would scream.  
> I swear.  And worse, Julie Deden would scream the louder!
> Beth