[stylist] question

[Angela fowler]

When it comes to blindness training, John, you're not wrong. The best people
to teach the skills of blindness are those who use them in their daily
lives. Everything else though, English, Math, History, etc. it doesn't
matter whether the teacher is blind or sighted.  

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From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of John Lee Clark
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] question

Jim:

What you wrote made me wonder about something.  In academic circles, for
rehab of the blind, education of the blind, blind studies, and so on, are
there many blind researchers and professors?

I am very fearful that the answer may be no.

The only thing I know is that I was truly shocked to learn that the
Minnesota school for the blind has only one fully blind teacher.  One!
Compare this to the school for the deaf, where eighty percent of the staff
is deaf, all the way from administration down to houseparents.

The academic journals on deafness, ASL, Deaf education, and so on, all are
edited by Deaf scholars and the great majority of contributors, the
professors and such, are Deaf.

True, mainstreaming is prevalent, but this is most often a problem with
school districts wanting to keep Deaf students because they're cash cows.
They promise they'll provide all the resources blah blah.  But it's crap.  

Still, Deaf schools are going strong and there are many large Deaf programs
within public schools, so there's a good social critical mass and also Deaf
teachers there.  All the accredition programs, the teacher training programs
for Deaf education, etc. all are run by Deaf people.  

I hope that blind people run everything, too.  If that's not the case, that
needs to change--or am I wrong to think that would be a good thing?

John 

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