Re: Why I am 100 percent against schools for the blind
I started school in a public school which had a classroom specifically for the blind students in the area in side it. We got to go home every night, and we never really interacted with the sighted kids there at first. But as I entered
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@zakc93 I'll have you know that my parents have been very good with taking care of me for almost 18 years that I've been on this planet, I'd hardly call them uninformed. Each parent razes their kid differently, there is no expected
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Nope Tjt, I think it was all about systematisation and control. It was a school for the blind so everyone had to be "blind" to fit into the same mould and anyone who deviated from that whether in behaviour or even in amount
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How strange, Dark. Do you think that they had good intentions--by attempting to discourage discussion of vision, they would be making people feel less sad for being blind?
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Funny Turtlepower, at the school for the blind I attended it was the other way around. if you had any usable vision you were made to feel guilty for having it, for example if you were playing a game with a totally blind person
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Interesting observations. I had the opposite experience, where you could get away with far more at a school for the blind that wouldn't have been tolerated in any mainstream environment, never mind society at large. Many of the kids I
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I think that in today's world where the teachers think they're on top of everything, parents really need to advocate for their kids. Teachers are there to give suggestions, not hand down rulings as to how things need to be done
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One thing a guide dog mobility instructor once told me was that independence did not mean not asking for help, it meant knowing who, when, how and in what way to ask for help. to take a case in point, if I order something from a cafe
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I graduated from a blind school. My experiences were that Braille was pretty heavily taught, Windows was everywhere, and that they really didn't teach much independent living skills to those who didn't really already have it. We were
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I did half of my schooling in catholic school and the other half at a school for the blind. I can say I had good and bad experiences in both.In mainstream schools I didn't really have difficulty when it came to accommodation, and I
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@63: My experience in mainstream schools was pretty close to yours. There were a few pupils making fun of me, but it happened quite rarely.Now that I think of it, though I wouldn't go back to that school for the blind if things had
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@63: My experience in mainstream schools was pretty close to yours. There were a few pupils making fun of me, but it happened quite rarely.Now that I think of it, though I wouldn't go back to that school for the blind if things had
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@63: My experience in mainstream schools was pretty close to yours. There were a few pupils making fun of me, but it happened quite rarely.Now that I think of it, though I wouldn't go back to that school for the blind if things had
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Funny you mention mobility lessons there Jeffb. I'm afraid the school for the blind I went to was rather lacking in that, mostly because everything in the environment was so stratified and pre-determined, and there was and only one
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Funny you mention mobility lessons there Jeffb. I'm afraid the school for the blind I went to was rather lacking in that, mostly because everything in the environment was so stratified and pre-determined, and there was and only one
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There's 1 other thing I forgot to mention about my experience as well. When I was at the summer camp, they had rules that you cannot let anyone touch your stuff no matter what. I was showing my friend QWS, and he asked me if he could
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I'm glad I only attended the Texas School for the Blind very infrequently. Some of these experiences are horrifying!I went through mainstream school and the experience was great! I had plenty of support in terms of Braille and other
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I can agree with that sentiment. I think schools for the blind encourage people to be lazy in many ways, socially and academically most of all. I also encountered a lot of kids who were much more immature than one would expect
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Sorry for the double post, but in my rant I forgot to mention that I feel my IQ is dropping bit by bit the longer I am at the school. I don't feel blind or disabled normally but there I really start to.
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yeah nock, I feel the same. When ever i'm at summer camp at the school in canada, (W Ross for those in canada), I felt like everyone did things a certain way and every other way was wrong. I felt the same about the other kids being
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@54 killing people never has and never will stop people doing bad things. just look at America where they still do it. more people are raped and murdered there than pretty much anywhere else in the world.while I agree with the anger
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Time to weigh in, I guess...I was mainstreamed all the way through... I'm glad I was. I graduated with honors in the advanced placement program class of 2006 and have never looked back. The very few times I visited the school
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Time to weigh in, I guess...I was mainstreamed all the way through... I'm glad I was. I graduated with honors in the advanced placement program class of 2006 and have never looked back. The very few times I visited the school
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Oh, and a big thumbs up to post 18, a great illustration of everything I wrote in my previous post.
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@50, the capital punishment is definitely a deserved punishment. If someone in your family got raped, or any of your friends got raped, wouldn't you want the death penalty applied to them? I know I certainly would!My experiences
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I'm glad your experience has been positive. As I said, I've heard that mainstreaming in general has come a long way since I was in school. Keep in mind that I graduated from high school nearly 10 years ago, and the last time I
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I'm in public school and nobody treats me like that. It depends on the school you go to. I experienced mostly negativity in blind schools, I can't think of 1 positive thing that happened to me there.
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Yeah, it is true that there are a few things that schools for the blind do well, most of which are centered around extracurriculars and sports. I said in my original post in this topic that not all of my experiences at the school I
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hi,Seriously? You bring up something that I did about 14 years ago? Do you think I'm mentally deranged or something? Or that I'm delusional? I swear that every event that I described in my previous post took place. In the case
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hi,I agree with you 100%. He apparently called them to the bedroom the teacher on guard stays at, and raped at least 3 children. The article is still in the turkish news. One of the children apparently went to the principal and told
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I really wish the death sentence was still a thing, all these blind school teachers need to be executed for this. For anyone who thinks I'm telling a bad joke, I'm actually 100% serious. They need to be executed, no questions asked
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@38 part of the psychological thing with those places was that they were in control. parents was another of their mind games. if you did something wrong, we'll tell your parents and they'll yell at you too kind of thing.so going home
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I'll tell you I went to public school from kindergarden through graduate school and even to get my doctorate. I did not exactly have an assistant. I had a teacher who made me come in an hour early for school and we learned Braille
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@Post37 and you didn't tell your parents about it?
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Re: Why I am 100 percent against schools for the blind
not at my school there wasn't. see my previous posts. I didn't get involved in the first part of that i wrote about, 2 other lads did though. as for the second, i do regret taking orders because the person in question did have problems
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not at my school there wasn't. see my previous posts. I didn't get involved in the first part of that i wrote about, 2 other lads did though. as for the second, i do regret taking orders because the person in question did have problems
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@Post34 It is real. Nobody could make something like that up, at least not to my knowledge.@Post35 There's always a choice, when the teacher told you to do it you could have said no I'm not going to.
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[[wow]], shotgunshell. Is that Real? Seems pretty unbelievable that staff would do things like that.The school in my area has had many lawsudes against it. Apparently in the 50s staff would throw braillers at students
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@Turtlepower, couldn't agree more with your post. I also experienced some of the events you mentioned on your post in my primary school.
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@24 Not having been in the situation, I have briefly shared your thought process, but I agree with post 27 in that there is a definite degree of fear. I'd also like to add though that not being in a place like that for years (gosh, one
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hard to explain but people didn't dare fight back, at least at the school I was at. most students were there from a very early age and figured that was just the way schools are. kids become very institutionalised in places like
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@post24 With all the bullshit you had to go through, I'm surprised you didn't fight back, and for that matter, nobody else seemed to have done so either. I would not have put up with that what so ever, they would have ended
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Sadly player the majority of Schools for the blind I've heard of in Britain, and at least a few of those in the states were pretty authoritarian and did cause the sort of reliance on the environment I mention, this might be different
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That is an interesting topic. I never thought, that other schools for the blind were run in such strict ways. I guess, I can count myself lucky, that I was visiting a school for the blind, that was pretty progressive in it's ways
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@15I agree with you here. This is also a problem. From my experience, staff put forth no effort to try to teach students that they shouldn't do things like rocking. They often miss the opportunity very early on and so the student ends
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fully agree with this. I have been in so called school for the blind though I would call it the place where you learn to be a good guy and where you get everything when ever you wanted it. That's most likely why I more like being
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@17 Agreed, and this is why I'm fully against blind schools in the long term. Lumping people together who all are blind or whatever, eliminates the social diversity that people, not just those who are blind, need to properly learn how
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I myself have pretty much tried everything, I started off in a primary school as the only blind student, then went to a residential special school for a couple of years, then a secondary school with a Vi unit, and finally finished my
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There's this "Don't criticize anything a disabled person does unless it's just that disruptive" attitude among certain segments of the population, in these parts at least. That's not how people learn socialization. If
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good point there in reply 15. most of the kids I was at school with rocked, poked, or sometimes did both at the same time. we were actually told off by members of staff for telling them that they shouldn't do that because that's just
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Well I would have to disagree with you on the freedom part. I my self went to a blind school, wile I hated it with a passion I finely got out of there and did better in public school. We didn't really have freedom. We weren't free
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@1:Here's my opinion on the matter. I would not go so far as to disagree with the idea of Blind Schools 100%, because I feel they have their uses. For example: a student who just recently lost the vision they were used to utilizing all
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I myself had an entirely different experience. When I went to the Governor Morhead school for the blind back in 2010, things seemed OK but needless to say it got ruff while I was there. It wasn't just 1 thing, but it was a series
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In truth, the quality of specialized vs mainstream education has varied with time and location. In the US, laws changed at some point in the 1970s-80s, which made it more possible for blind students to attend public schools
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In the schools I've been to, meterial was always provided in accessible formats, teachers were always understanding and helpful, etc, etc, etc. I'm so glad I didn't end up going to the blind school in my area, as I understand
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Well I did both, I was at the end of the era, and now days the blind school is like a resource centre.You get taught the basics, then you go mainstream and tap into resources if and when you need them.For me it was in transition so
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Hi, I think at some point this is a rushed post.I attended a special school for the blind and I’d say it was really not the best experience I’ve had throughout these fifteen years in education. The specialisation or the experience you
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Hi, I think at some point this is a rushed post.I attended a special school for the blind and I’d say it was really not the best experience I’ve had throughout these fifteen years in education. The specialisation or the experience you
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never been in a blind school myself, but from what I heard, I'm glad. sharing rooms and shit with strangers is 1 thing, but having the blind school teaching you how to do one thing, their way, stops you from a hell load of adventures
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@7Well I think that this also depends on a few factors like how old the person was, how long they'd been visually impaired, how long they'd attended the blind school, and who knows what else. I'm just suggesting that the school might
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@Gamedude, what I mean about not being forced to read braille is a lot of the kids I know use mainly screen readers and only know the basics of braille. At a sports camp a kid asked me to read the room number sign because he couldn't
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I totally disagree, even though I wasn't blind, I did have poor vision. My parents forced me to go to a mainstream school despite my complaints about problems like being assigned a seat in the back of the class room where I had zero
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@2I had a similar experience that forced me to attend my first blind school. I grew up in a pretty bad area with an even worse education system. Once I lost my vision at a young age, my parents (unknown to me at the time) had many
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Having attended a blind school myself, I am going to address the significant points you've made in your post and offer my opinions about them:1. Almost everybody I know who goes to a school for the blind is always sheltered in one way
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I went to a school for the blind in England and I hated it. I was lucky enough to be able to go home every night but I pittied the poor kids that were residential. you could see the effect it had on them. they had no social skills
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I think it really depends on the school and the student. My mother attempted to put me in mainstream school when I was little, and that school didn't know what to do with me. Maybe things are different now. That was in the late 80's
Why I am 100 percent against schools for the blind
So I've never been to one of these. I've always gone to public school like everybody else. I've never been seen as any different. I've been bullied, sure, but who doesn't from time to time? Almost everybody I know who goes to a school
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