Category: Teen Topics
While we're on the school topic, I'm interested to know what kinds of schools you attend or have attended. Are you in a school for the blind, a regular public school, a regular private school like a religious school, or are you homeschooled? I went to public school since until eighth grade then went to a private Catholic school for high school where I am now. I've never been in a school for the blind, though I think that would be kind of cool.
I was and am in a public school.
I went to a regulal untill I was 21 then I heard of a school for the blind and that was in little rock Arkansas. it is diffferen then being in a regulal school.
Carol
I'm in public school, and have been since kindergarten. I was in Pre-Schools that were for special kids, though. Well, my first one was, and then the second was half for blindies and stuff, and the other half was for non disabled type kids. Heheh.
Caitlin
As for me, I attended a school for the blind in Brantford, Ontario, The W. Ross Macdonald School. I was a student there from 1975 through 1990. IT was a pretty good school, probably one of the better schools in all of North America. was a major part of my life and I still think about my time there at times. Hell, I will even dream that I'm still going there, on occasion. I was in a regular public school in my home town for Kindergarten however.
caitlin, you mean mainstreamed?
main streamed all the way
Ya mainstreamed. Lol ...
I attended a primary school for the blind where there's also a school for the older, who are - well, how ca I say that - not that intelliget or too lazy? I do't want to be rude. Well, after seven years there I went to a kind of college, ad ow I'm doig an educatio.
Tight! My pre-school had lots of disabled kids in it...My first one...I mean it was for disabled kids...There were a few blindies...I wish I could find them again and see how they're doing.
Well, the pre-school where I went was a pre-school for sighted childre but they treated me very, very getly. My mother says that was not goo dbecause she said I should have learned to use my fists, I'm too weak, she says.
Well I didn't start early school like most 4 to 5-year-olds. I didn't start school until I was 10. My first school was a special school, for people with all varieties of disabilities. From blindness to mutes to deaf-mutes, to wheelchair bounds, ETC. I stayed there for about a year then I moved to a public elementary school, where I started special ed fourth grade. I was in special ed until I reached high school, then I was in regular high school, but in resource classes until 12th grade.
I have attended both a blind school and a public school.
Most of my life I was in blind school in Primary and high school. But in High school there was a mainstream school some of us went to for 1 leson and we didn't like it. But I think it was to help us to get used to mainstream life. Then I went to a blind college in England for 3 years. Now I am in a mainstream college but it has special units for different disabilities. But I am i the mainstream part and it is realy tough. Michelle
I atendede RLSB Dorton House School in Sevenoaks, Kent, till I was nearly 11, then I moved on to RNIB New College Worcester till I was nearly 18, then I had three years in a mainstream College, Loughborough Tech. I'm going back to College at RNCB in Hereford this year.
I attended public schools all my life and was mainstreamed for most of it. during I think my second grade year, I remember spending some time in the special ed classroom (but it was only for like a few minutes a day, and then from then or 3rd thru 5th grades (somewhere during those years) I would spend a few hours a week in the resource room. Also, during 6th and/or 7th grade, I was in a regular PE class, but was put to exercise alone or separately with some special ed students, so I would call that kind of like an adaptive PE class almost, since that happened for most of the semester or year that I had that in. (I and another blind student also would sometimes exercise separately when we had a PE class together in high school, but in a way I would consider it more inclusive because we were also usually included with everyone else in their activities when possible and when not, the coach expected us to spend most of the class time exercising )either walking around the track or using some exercise equipment that was in a room right off the gym), and would check on us.
During summer school, in my early elementary years, up to 2nd grade, I was in a summer school program that took place at a public school but that was made up of blind/VI students. We mainly played and did art and sometimes baking activities. After 2nd grade, I spent that and almost every summer until and including the one where I was 18 at the Texas School for the Blind. Then, from March thru October 2002, I went to the Criss Cole rehab center. And of course, I go to a regular college (but if there were a college for the blind here, I'd want to at least try it out.) I spent one semester at a university, during the fall of 2001, but after that went to CCRC, then came back home and went to/am attenting a community college.
I started pre-school in a class with other students with disabilities. I have been told that I was a little develepmentally behind. From kindergarden onward, I was always in public school. I took some classes at the Wisconsin state school for the blind in Janesville, but that was only in summer. What was cool about middle and high school was the fact that one of the kids who was in my pre-school class was in school with me. He and I graduated last year in June.
I've been in mainstream school all my life and I couldn't imagine it any other way. A lot of people told my Mum that she was crazy when I was little and said I'd never manage but she insisted that I was going to go to a mainstream school. I went to two primary schools: one was a tiny private school and the other was a Loreto National School that I was in for 2 years. I'm now in a Loreto secondary school and will graduate next year
Chris:-)
I've attend both blind and public and blind asnd public at the same time. I attend public school for 6 and a haff years. I had to reppeet kindergarten 3 time s cause wair i lived they didint ahve a good program for me untill I mooved up to the bay eria. When I was 12 I transferd to CSB. and did 2 years of jsut CSB and last year I whent back in to public school part time..:D
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Lol! I had gone to regular elementary and middle schools, but now I go to a classical high school Just means I get way more credits for university. Lol, no half days for us, unfortunately.
When I was in the Philippines, I attended a private school from elementary up to my sophomore year of high school. When I came here, I finished the remaining two years of my high school at a regular public school. After graduating from high school, I spent three years at a community college and finished my general education classes. And now, I’m studying at a four year public university finishing my bachelor’s degree in a double major in Special Education and English.
I've been attending a public school since the start.
I've been in public school from the start as well.
Last year (my freshman year of high school) wasn't that great... My parents and I considered PSB (Perkins School for the Blind), as well as a regular private all-girls Catholic school.
Sophomore year is a little better, but my school seriously sucks what with my being the only disabled kid in it at all and such.
Just two and three-fourths more years...
When I lived in Vietnam, I went to a private school since i was three. Actually, in Vietnam, there's no public schools, you have to pay to get an education and if you can't afford it, then you're screwed, lol. But, when I moved to the states, I attended public school and is still attending a public school. I think I wouldn't have it any other way. I think schools for the blind just isn't my thing. i always feel so claustrophobic whenever i go to the blind schools and see most of the kids. I rather have the inter-action between the sighted kids in my school rather than just sticking to the "blind" world. so yeah, public school all the way, and I'm loving high school so far. yayayaya!
Yes, same here. I attended a course for Technology for a week at CSB, and got incredibly bored, there. Besides having the time of my life at the dorm with my friend Amber, of course.
I've only attended a public school. Many of the people I speak to that have attended a school for the blind intensely dislike it there. I'm not interested. I love the school I attend.
I hate it when people always say how they dislike school and take it for granted. I love school! I look forward to vacation's end so school can begin again. I love getting up every morning and knowing that I'm going to school. I love learning and doing homework. It's not all about friends. There's a time for learning and a time for socializing.
I am thinking of going to L college for the rnib part because there isn't much up here in Scotland for the blind and I have tried mainstream and it just stresses me out. I want to do an adult course custamor services for 6 monthsoughborough
I've gone to mainstream regular public school my entire life, but I too would like to try out a blind school, just to see what its like.
I've also always been to public schools my whole life.
I only don’t like school because it’s all about conforming. I am an individualist. I believe being different is good, and to be able to clearly express your ideas. School hates that.
School is about receiving an education, not conformance. In every school I've attended, and every class I've taken, it's always been about being yourself; don't be a follower, be a leader. They always want you to have your own set of opinions, beliefs, and morals. It's all about seeing the world for yourself, instead of prejudging everything and determining opinions and beliefs from hear-say.
Sure, they preach that sort of thing, and then they turn around and want you to conform or at least that’s what I experienced.
I was in normal mainstream school all my life until I was 17, when I went to RNIB College, Loughborough, then about a year and a half ago, I started here at RNC, which is also a college for the blind. The primary school I went to was a normal school, but there were other "disabled" children there too, like in wheelchairs and other visual impairments. I think normal schools are better because you're going to have to face sighted people and everyone else when you get older and similar with colleges. Mind you, blind schools and colleges are good for teaching living skills and stuff, but that can normally be done at home too.
Looks I am going to a pretty famous private college
I have been in mane stream school all the way and I am now a sophomore. I would like to see how a blind school operates though. No pun intended.