Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!David.Andrews From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Expulsion from NFB now a fact Message-ID: <17578@bunker.UUCP> Date: 4 Feb 91 17:18:42 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA Lines: 35 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 13459 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] CH> One problem which I have with the monitor is the articles like CH> the one in the last July's issue. CH> it was talking about a student who convinced CH> the state agency to pay for his private college. It left me CH> asking: did this student attempt to earn any merrit CH> scholarships? Or did this person just think"simce I'm blind, CH> the state should pay for my private education". CH> Many other articles seem to constantly discuss blind CH> individuals getting money out of agencies. That's fine if they CH> can't find any other way, but, for me anyway, I'd look CH> everywhere else before I ask the state for help. Maybe even CH> consider attempting to find some sort of job before continuing CH> my education etc. Chris, you seem to be making a lot of assumptions about what people are doing and why. The Federal government spends over one billion dollars a year on the rehab system. That doesn't cound what the states have to put in, which is 20 percent of that. If a person is a rehab client, he has the right to receive the training to which he/she is entitled. People do sometimes have to fight for their rights. On the scholarship front, the NFB will award over $70,000 worth of scholarships to blind persons this year. I don't know of any other organization of or for the blind doing as much to help blind persons. ... Your Sound Alternative -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!David.Andrews Internet: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org