History of Education of the Blind

I thank Jesus for you pattern Realm 
     Years ago and for decades after America's founding blind people were either put in asylums or relegated to home with their families. 
     But then the Perkins School for the blind was established and in the 1880s a young woman named Annie Sullivan did a breakthrough to the barrier in order to educate the deaf blind, starting with Helen Keller.  Don't tell me blind people can't do great things! 
     Back in the 1970s with parents wishing to have their blind children mainstreamed many school districts did not know what to do with them. 
     But I was fortunate that along with my mama a vision resource teacher named Jane Kraker, my rights was fought for and in 1978 I was mainstreamed in the kindergarten at the age of 8 years old.  Where would we blind people be today as far as their education we're not for our mamas? 
     When I went to summer school at the Texas School for the blind back in the late '80s and early '90s the place was clearly a dumping ground for some parents to drop off their kids.  And the kids headed the place.  To be honest with you the authoritarian ethos of the school should be a turnoff to any blind parent to want their kids to go there and in retrospect I should have listened to my mama but the good news was she agreed to have me mainstreamed back home in my local high school. 
     Forgive me I should probably define the term mainstreamed.  What that means is putting someone with a disability in the same class as everybody else in school.  In the 1990s many superintendents of the School for the blind we'll decide only to take some of the worst case scenarios students and prefer that most blind kids are mainstreamed at home with their families 

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