Having gone to both blind and public school I would chose public school any
times. Sure both got it's advantages and disadvantages. Blind school
probablly make it easier for blind people for learning independent skills
and things that are more relevant to blind people only, but academicly
you'll definitely succeed better at a public school. Also socialy you'll do
better in a public school, unless your aim in life si to only always hang
out with blind people in whcih case imo you're just a sad loser. Also
schools for blind most of the time seem to give you this faulce sense of
reality, that everything will be OK, that life after school will be easy,
that world owes you things, that you'll haveeverything handed on the plate
for you because you're blind, that everyone'll love you because you're
blind, that everyone will respect you and be nice to you because you're
blind. Real world doesn't work like that.
Don't get me wrong, there are people who only went to aschools for the blind
and turned to be great people, but if I had a choice and if I ever have a
kid I'll do my best to make sure that it goes to a public school for reason
stated above.
Vanja
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Caitlin H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "talk2" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Publick Schools Suck
Ditto. Parents, administration, and VI teachers really need to be good to
make public schools work. But I'd take public school over lind schools
any day, at least the one near me. I meet way more friends in public
school than I would at blind school.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maria L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "talk2" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Publick Schools Suck
Unfortunately in the case of public schools, a lot of stuff is going to
have to be dealt with by parents. The administrations don't know what to
do or expect with a blind student, so parents need to be the informed
ones and also to help provide information and support for it to work.
I'd send my blind kid to public school definitely over US blind schools,
but that's just me.
(Please note the US, from everything I've heard, overseas schools are
very different.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "kerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "talk2" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:14
Subject: The Talk2 List Publick Schools Suck
General question how menny think that Publick Schools suck when it comes
to the blind?
Kerry
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