Re: Schools for the blind, training centers, and how they perform.
Unfortunately this is true and this happens with all the parents who have a blind kid. Some parents find it easy when they are told that his kid will have to attend a specialist school, because they do not have to worry about his child. His kid will have assistants who will care and help him for almost everything, at least, that’s “what’s literally said and promised by school’s staff”, but the chances to be all the promises true are few or less. Some assistants do not care what they have taken over but they keep talking and having fun with their colleagues sitting somewhere and maybe drinking a coffee and forgetting some kids who are in need of them. This was a case of a four year child whom his parents had enrolled in my specialist school, in fact he was too young to start attending the school, but his parents sounded like they wanted to take away his son from their life for some years. I was shocked when I was told from my friend that he was just four years old and I was at my eighth grade. So one day I came him across while I was moving from dorm to school. A number of assistants were gathered close to the outside door of the dorm, and they were laughing and having fun, like they were having a party. As I was walking, I heard a child crying. He was the four year child who was alone, wandering around, with noone to run, and nowhere to go. I went to the assistants and told them, why didn’t you help this guy go to school? They acted like they had no idea if anybody was around and needed help. Then I told them to help him go to school. They said: “where are you going?” I told that I was going to school, and they said to me, “why don’t you help him yourself?”
I was stunned when I heard this question and I seriously thought, What’s the purpose of these assistants who are getting a fucking salary next to nothing?
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