Kentucky School For The Blind News: Criticisms Arize From Louisville Parents!
A number of Louisville-based parents who have kids attending the Kentucky School for the blind made it to news today for making a protest on what they believe as a marked deterioration in education for their kids. The said school replaced their top administrators back in 2014, in a report by the WHAS11.com.
The parents reported that the children who are studying in the school located in Louisville are now failing, considering that they used to ace in their academic progress. They [the parents] even pointed out the dramatic and drastic changes in the practices that are being applied by the current administration. In addition, they believe the shift is trying to achieve the goal of weeding out children with disabilities apart from blindness, like autism or behavioral disorders to name a few.
"The first year was just amazing," parent Katie O'Bryan told the news outfit Courier-Journal, who has a child studying at the Kentucky School for the Blind in Louisville. "There's no way he could have been getting that education anywhere else. He thrived." However, O'Brian is one of the many parents who are putting up a protest on what they say is a marked degradation in the education system for their children at the mentioned school.
The school is an educational facility for blind and visually impaired students from Kentucky up to the age of 21 years old. It was founded by Bryce McLellan Patten and was originally Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Blind in 1839.
State Education Commissioner Stephen L. Pruitt told news reporters and media outfits that he has nothing yet to say to the past practices of the Kentucky School for the Blind but he assured that he is committed in making sure the best attainable services at the Kentucky School for the Blind in Louisville as well as at the School for the Deaf in Danville.