Re: Schools for the blind, training centers, and how they perform.
The Uk is somewhere between the two and dependent upon the system. In a lot of current mainstream schools I have heard of cases that Camlorn describes, where blind kids are basicaly educated by their classroom assistant and even if they are in the school they're prohibited from taking part in various activities going on. In my specialist school however the attitude was rather similar to what Afrim described. Indeed, my home was perhaps an hour and a half travel away, and I went home several knights a week because my mum physically fetched me, sinse she didn't want me to have the same experience that she had had, being at specialist school constantly. Other students however stayed five ays a week and just went home at weekends. Apparently the head master of that school actually had words with my mum to the ffect that I shouln't be going home because it would make the other kids from nottingham jealous to which my mum replied "well there's nothing to stop th eir parents from picking them up" (heck one of them lived less than half an hour away and they all unlike my mum had cars).
On the other hand, in my secondary school the attitude was frighteningly different, sinse the teachers and exec staff were so desperate to pretend that everything was fine despite what was happening on a dayly basis they made the situation considerably worse.
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