Gov Paterson struck down a bill re deaf & blind

[Miss-Delectable]

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Gov. David A. Paterson's 52nd veto, issued last week, was somewhat personal.

Paterson, who has been legally blind since infancy, struck down a bill requiring school districts to provide parents of blind or deaf children with information about the state's School for the Blind in Batavia and School for the Deaf in Rome. While praising the schools' graduates, all taught apart from the non-disabled, he said the bill could limit opportunities for future generations.

"Providing parents with information about only one educational option, our state-operated facilities, might lead some parents to discount the full range of options that might be appropriate and available for their children," he said.

Paterson's parents moved to Hempstead Village so he could attend regular public school rather than special education in the New York City schools. He now credits his independence and success in part to this mainstreaming. He never learned Braille. Instead he memorizes information read aloud to him.

*He says he is independent, but is he really? Since he had to have someone to read aloud to him instead of him reading Braille by himself.

 

[Bebonang]

I don't know how he became a governor if he says that he is independent and had been in a regular public schools instead of the mainstream with the help of interpreter for the blind and never learn Braille which is a mind blogging. What kind of parents is putting him through like this. It sounds like brainwash and I feel sorry for him not knowing how important that he needs to have to use the braille typewriter and enjoy being with the blind people. He needs to join the blind culture so that he can voice on his experience of being blind since birth. But if he never done that, then this treatment by his parents are cruel. ** shaking my head**