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From: Donna.Siren@p19.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Donna Siren)
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Subject: Re: Setting the record straight
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Date: 24 Apr 91 22:09:24 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 MO> better than print, but, if a little kid who has partial sight isn't
 MO> motivated to learn it and you force him, he'll probably hate it, not want
 MO> to learn it etc.

I didn't want to learn a lot of what I was forced to learn.
History bored me and I was terrible in math.  There were other
subjects that I hated with a passion, but I had no choice but to
learn them.  If a partial learns braille and doesn't use it, then
that's his choice, but there are a lot of them that do.  I talked
to a friend about this--she's a partial and she apparently isn't
going to lose what sight she has.  She was taught braille in school
and she is very happy to have learned it.  Even though she can read
large print, she does a lot of her reading in braille or on tape.
Maybe others would rather not use braille, but then we all had
subjects forced on us that we may never make use of.
	       Donna

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