Re: Why I am 100 percent against schools for the blind
@63: My experience in mainstream schools was pretty close to yours. There were a few pupils making fun of me, but it happened quite rarely.
Now that I think of it, though I wouldn't go back to that school for the blind if things had to be redone, I think the most problems I had with that school weren't due to said school being for the blind. It was the first time I had to stay over for the entire week, and at the end of the day we had two hours for homework, and we very rarely went out -which may have been different in a mainstream school, I admit it-. So all we were thinking about was studying, not much else, to the point it sometimes became almost unbearable.
In that regard, I can really thank myself and one of my friend for what we made for my last year there. We asked to be allowed to form a Heavy Metal band, and we were allowed to repeat at Tuesday evening every week. I was allowed to borrow the PSRS-910 as I wanted to be the keyboardist, my friend played the drums and two other friends later joined for the other instruments. This went to the point it became my favourite moment of the week by far, as we were in this room, playing Heavy Metal like anyone else who would have wanted to, not to mension it was probably one of the least appreciated style of music in the school, to the point we wrote "rock band" instead of "heavy metal band" in the letter we sent to ask for the band to form. It was among those rare moment I could say I felt free.
So in the end, though I still kind of wish I staid in minstream schools all allong, I have to say that the experinece was much better than it could have been and I shouldn't regret these years as they also brought good moments.
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