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From: Stew.Bowden@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Stew Bowden)
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Subject: Re: books in public schools
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Date: 25 Sep 90 02:49:17 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi Gary: you are so right. It seems that the older we get, the more
intelligent we seem to our kids. The debate about public verses
residential schools for the blind has been raging since 1865. Yet, it
is interesting, that in the beginning, no public school was willing
to even attempt to educate blind students. Not until residential
schools proved conclusively that blind children are in fact educable
did the public school consider the idea. This is not all bad, because
I am convinced that all blind students need to experience public
education some time in their lives. However, before doing so, they
need to have survival skills and high expectations academically
which, in my opinion, can only begin in a good school for the blind.
However, sadly today, most blind schools have been desimatedby
pl-94-142. O well, such is the price of change, but I can't help
wondering how many more generations of welfare blind must we educate
before we wise up.

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