Cut the Blind? What the Hey?

Is it me? I don't get it! Education needs an enema! Cuts, cuts and more cuts.

Today, I heard about cutting Visually Impaired Services! Visually Impaired or “low vision is a severe reduction in vision that can't be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses and reduces a person's ability to function at certain or all tasks.” (http://www.answers.com/topic/visually-impaired)

How in the world could anyone think about cutting or reducing a trained professional to work with these students? These services are modifications not actual services someone stated today. Are these people out of their minds?

Blind students need services! These students use glasses, Braille, seeing eye dogs, canes and adaptive computer technology. What could the person been thinking that wanted to cut these priceless services. What degree could they have earned to make it ok to even think about this course of action? What university produces people who do not think but desperately do things that hurt the future of our children, state, and nation?

We’d better wake up and take charge of the yahoos that are running things into the ground in education. The thinkers that want to cut starting with my kids education and social skills for autistic youth need a flush.

PARENTS, GOOD SOLID TEACHERS, ADVOCATES and the COMMUNITY pick up your beds and walk. Open your mouths and complain and let’s make common sense in education. Enough is enough, let’s flush out the waste before it’s too late.

Action Plan

•Look for re-elections and up coming school board meetings.
•Go and see what’s cooking.
•Ask a kid about what’s going on in school and the good stuff too. We need to know what is working.

•Visit a local school.
•Ask for literacy curriculum
•Ask to see computers in the classroom, you might faint at this one
•Ask about vocational track for students
•Report back about what you find and let’s do something before education suffers anymore.