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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
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Subject: Re: Setting the record straight
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Date: 19 Apr 91 20:28:49 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

-> In a message to William Wilson <04-01-91 16:58> Mary Otten wrote:
->
-> MO> probbably forgotten it soon after. What I think is a crime
-> MO> is tht too many school systems are taking kids with no
-> MO> usable vision and, instead of teaching them the same kind
-> MO> of braille reading skills as I had to learn, they're
-> MO> letting them get by with tapes, and readers and people to
-> MO> whom they can dictate their work, tests etc. Thast's
-> MO> criminal in my opinion, far worsae worse than letting
-> MO> partially sighted kids with usable vision and a reasonable
-> MO> chance to maintain that vision get away without learing
-> MO> braille.

     Don't know about worse or not, but, about the criminal part, I agree.
While I don't find much total use for braille, there's no substitute for
what it gives one in the formative years and for the handiness of it (if I
can put it that way).

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