Talk:Perkins School for the Blind

message: The article on the BTBL was not meant to be part of the same page as the article for the school.  Mabibliophile (talk) 16:22, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved article on BTBL

message: WCVB-TV recently re-aired its piece about the Perkins School for the Blind; on it's nightly newsmagazine show, "Chronicle."  Sadly Perkins has, once again, been portrayed as something it is not.
Perkins continues to lie to prospective students and parents, and the general public, when it says that they offer an equitable, or better, educational environment than public schools. As a former student, I can tell you that this IS NOT the case.
The majority of Perkins' current students are multi-handicapped and/or mentally challenged.  The school's curriculum, like any institution's, is geared towards the majority of its student body. This causes students whose only disability is blindness to receive a sub-standard education. "Chronicle" was blatantly wrong to claim that Perkins has "rigorous academic standards."  The fact that very few Perkins students pass the MCAS is a glaring example of this.  I had to repeat courses I had taken at Perkins, in order to obtain a diploma from Ashland High School in 1999.
While it is true that students who are blind or visually impaired may face many academic, social, and emotional difficulties in public school, it does them an even greater disservice to send them to a segregated institution. This kind of artificial environment does not prepare students for the outside world.  Perkins would serve these students, and the public, much better by using its money and influence to advocate for the improvement of special education services to all students with disabilities.
While there is no denying that, at one time, Perkins School for the Blind WAS a good educational opportunity for blind students, this is no longer the case.  Perkins needs to wake up and stop living in the past!  Inclusion has been the law for a generation, and there is no turning back!
I agree with everything written above. It's actually far worse than what was written I could write pages & pages about it the issues there.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Educateus (talk • contribs) 23:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: blind vs. multi-handicapped

message: The following information was effectively removed by today's revert. The criticism may be true, but one testimonial is not enough to warrant inclusion. Can anyone cite any references to back up these claims? Edwardian 20:35, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The section above was copied into the article page again on Oct 13 2005. I don't doubt that much of this criticism is true. However, I removed it from the article as I feel it is inappropriate for the article page, which should read like an encyclopedia. This kind of thing is often found on the discussion page associated with an article, and I am happy to leave the above here where interested parties can read it. If there is a student movement against the school policies, or legal action against the school, or criticism of the school published in a notable source, then this can be summarised in the main article (see WP:NPOV and WP:NOR). ntennis 00:59, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: This article should be at least ten times longer.  There is so much to say about Perkins!
-69.87.204.40 (talk) 01:15, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: pathetic

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message: Is Perkins a high school, secondary school, K-12 school, college, or something else? Does it provide diplomas?Naddruf (talk) 13:56, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What kind of school is it? 

message: I am admittedly a broken record.  And you are going to listen to it.
The previous item is exquisitely symptomatic of Wikipedia. Your attempted writeups inevitably name plenty of details but not all the basics of the subject.  For the many dozenth time, I came to Wikipedia to ascertain one of the most fundamental facts on a topic, and you fail me.
You say Perkins was "founded" in 1829.  That phraseology names an event on paper.  What year did it open, is what we also need to know.
So back I go into the chaos of the Web at large, to get that fact elsewhere.
Jimlue (talk) 21:55, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates