[Arizona-students] "You Don't Have To"

[Darrell Shandrow]

Allison and all,

Of course, I agree with the premise of this article and am glad to see that 
ideas for ensuring the reasonable accessibility of such an assignment were 
also discussed. See, there's an accessibility perspective to this topic.

If we were to go with the "you don't have to" approach, then there wouldn't 
be a need for any accessibility. I'm sort of wondering if that was another 
reason for this teacher's exemption of Jordan from the assignment? If she 
wants him to do it, then some sort of reasonable accomodations are obviously 
needed in order to complete it successfully. On the other hand, exemption of 
the child from the assignment also exempts the teacher from possibly having 
to do a small amount of extra work. Hmm.  That actually makes it doubly 
robbery IMHO...
:(


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allison Hilliker" <hillikera at gmail.com>
To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List" 
<arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] "You Don't Have To"


Hi all,

Thanks for sharing this story, Arielle.  That was really interesting and
really true.
Unfortunately I think I have at some point, fallen into the trap of not
doing something simply because I was told I didn't have to since I'm blind.
I can't think up specific situations, but I'm sure it has happened.  One
reason I've really tried not to fall into that trap though is because of how
I think it may effect how sighted people view me.  After all, if I
expect others to treat me equally, isn't it essential that I expect
equality from myself?  I can't tell others to treat me equally one minute,
and then except some sort of preferential treatment the next.  If I want to
be given a job, or a scholarship, or a passing grade, doesn't that also mean
that I should have to meet all the requirements associated with such
privileges?  These are the thoughts I try to keep in mind as I am offered
many of life's little blindness-related shortcuts.

I'm interested to see what others think about this topic.

Hope everyone had a nice holiday.  Happy new year all.

Best,

Allison

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