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A blidn school ... hmmmm. You learn to be independent, but still you get enough help, as much as you need. And you can get every book/text digitally or in braille. You can get DFL (daily living skills) and mobility training.
You really don't want to be in one unless you have to. Most of them are private institutions that lack funding, at least here they do. Understaffed and underpaid would probably be the most accurate description. If you've any intelligence what so ever, often times it's hard to really progress and you'll find yourself intellectually suffocated. Ever since the early/mid 80's, the government has pushed for blind students to go to public school. Something like a least restrictive environment law. Either way you slice it, these blind schools aren't really what they used to be. These days, most of their student body is comprised of people with multiple disabilities. And for lack of a better way of putting it, they're nearly forced to cater to the lowest level academically. I've been through hell and back with public school as far as the social aspect of things go, but you learn a hell of a lot more, because nine times out of ten, if you let yourself, you won't be as sheltered as you could be anywhere else. I'd just hold out if I were you. It can certainly prove to be a bit more beneficial.
Well and with sighted teens ... well, not much, not from the school. ONly privately from other events. We did not do much with sighted students.
Here is what I've found out about colleges and schools for the blind in England. First, West Of England. The staff demand that reguardless of a persons age, if they are in a bedroom with a person of the opposite genda the door must remain open at all times. That makes the staff perverts. Henshaws in Harigate, doesn't allow students to leave the campus without a sighted adult even if they're over 18. West Of England are also guilty of having this rule. Royal National College for the blind, demands that nobody sees their friends if they're not in the same accomodation between 23:30 and 8:00. This applies also to couples who are in different accomodation so they can't sleep together. Queen Alexander College in Birmingham also is notorious for been an pppressive place. Don't know anything about schools or colleges I haven't mentioned, but all of what I've described amounts to blatant basic human rights violations which I can assure you wouldn't happen in residential places where their are sighted people in this country such as universities. Imagin been 35 and told when you can and cannot visit your friends. Oh and also, their are rules restricting when you can have visitors who aren't students in these places too. The only other places which do that that I know of are prisons. Blind people who attend blind schools/colleges are treated like prisoners, not allowed any privacy with their partners, not allowed to visit their friends at certain times or be visited at certain times, not allowed to leave the campus without staff, it's absolutely unacceptable and I tell you this! unlike a lot of Visually Impaired people, I refuse reguardless of the consequences to obey any rule which restricts me more than my sighted friends. All visually impaired people at these schools/colleges for the blind should do the same, but unfortunately, they won't. Most aren't prepared to take whatever measures are necessary to ensure their freedom and the freedom of future students.
Right. I know that I will not go to any other college for the blind except Worcester. Lol. Thanks for warning me Wayne *grins*.
Worcester is one of the worst blind schools there is and the only reason I didn't include them in my last post uis that I forgot what I wanted to say about them but now I remember. This school with a large amount of students, does not permit the use of canes to navigate your way around the building. #Also they like other schools try to dictate peoples social lives by determining who they can and cannot see after 23:00. I can get a lot more information about how schools and colleges for blind people mistreat their students.
I just remembered something else about the Royal National College For The Blind. On Fridays and Saturdays students who are under 18-years-old can get a late pass meaning they can stay out an extra hour. The purpose of the 11:00 PM rule is to protect zstudents of that age and to make sure the college is fulfilling it's lawful obligation as the carer for those people. Can anyone explain how been out after 11 with a late pass makes you safer than you are without one? The college takes down a phone number and details about where you will be when issuing you with this pass, but if you were a girl and you had a late pass, if you were out and a man wanted to rape you, I don't think he'd check to see if you'd got a late pass. If you're a guy I'm sure another person wouldn't check for your late pass before deciding whether to harm you or abuse you in any way either. It's a stupid system. How does the 11:00 rule protect you anyway, if you're out in the day and someone wants to harm you in any way? Igt doesn't! Surely this means that the college only protects its students who are nder 18 years of age at night time and so only fulfills its lawful requirements for 50% of the time it's supposed to!
the one i go to is okay.
all the things said abuv aply to me
a blind school I have bee in one since the 4 grade. People need to know where you are at all times. You have your work in the format that you need it in. you see sight teens some time if you go to the movies or something like that or out to eat or to baskretball.
you get daily living skills.
Wayne they at least let you go out without a sighted person and the door has not to remain open if a couple is together in the room - only if shouldn't be after curfew. *grins*.
wayne, you jus fucked up. First, the hole passes hthing? Totally inaccurate, and I can say that as a current student. accademically this school is better than yours, which is known for it's terrible accademic reputation and rncb being an acronim for really crappy, not- bright, students. Also, worcester students are perfectly free to stay out later than kerfew on weekends and stay in another house unmonnitered by staff providing they give staff foreknowledge, regardless of their age. Trust me, I've been to schools which are a lot worse than we are, the RNIB just splerges on you guys because you need more help than we do to stay alive.
Well firstly, different schools and colleges have different systems and I said which schools do what. Innesle, Henshaws definitely have rules about where people can and cannot go without sighted people as do West of England. That is fact! RNC doesn't, and I don't know about whether or not Worcester does. Also with reguards what you say about couples and the curfew, how people conduct their social and love lives shouldn't be determined by curfews, hence the reason I categorically refuse to obey any curfew which states where I can and cannot be. Fabolous, there shouldn't be a curfew in Worcester or elsewhere at any time. Secondly with regarding grades, I never came to RNC for educational reasons, I'm only at a college for blind people so I can get living skills, just like most deesent people. RNC tries to help students achieve their potential. It's a fact that RNC students don't go to Worcester after leaving RNC but some Worcester students come to RNC after leaving there. Anyway, both places are guilty of blatant and basic human rights violation which are unjustifiable and unacceptable. Brice, the only advantages of Blind schools and colleges are that they teach living skills and mobility and can adapt some subjects more than mainstream can for blind people. However, overall, I prefer mainstram where I'm as free as sighted people to blind schools and blind colleges which restrict my freedom and the freedom of other visually impaired people unnecessarily. There are people who agree with the oppressive rules the tyranical regimes in these blind schools and colleges like to subject them to, but usually it's because they've known nothing better, and aren't independent enough to make their own decisions and choices. No blind school or college that I know of teaches people who behave like weirdos how not to be weird, so none of them are providing a fully helpful service.
Woa is this gonna be a school battle I started? Lolol I can't compaire, I only was in Worcester, nowhere else in the UK. All I can say is that our school in Marburg, a school for the blind, allows you a lot of freedom and independence because all these groups are not on one campus but all over the town.
I don't know about blind schools in Germany, but do people at blind schools in Germany have the same amount of freedom people in Mainstream do? If they don't, then that is unacceptable. Anyway, last night, was in a hall after visiting times. (sounds like a prison already). Anyway warden comes up there and he's new. Stupid mother fucker though, after knocking on the door of the persons room takes so long to open it. I was able to walk with my girlfriend to the bathroom where we closed the door and locked it standing in silence. He believed noone was there and we left eventually about an hour after the visiting times were over. Thought I'd brag about it, it should surve as an example to oppressed students at blind schools and colleges for how tyranical rules can be broken without any consequences been implemented.
where is your gf anyways? I saw her on msn once but was asleep and couldn't respond to her messages and haven't seen her since. Tell free T to come back! Lol
Well Wayne, nearly. At least in my school - allows you nearly as much freedom as in main streem, maybe even more than in main-stream boarding schools. Honestly, it's true.