Hello All!
Was recently reading the April 1996 issue of the braille monitor, and saw 
Peggy's article on the state of The National Accreditation council.
One thing alarms and annoys me greatly when reading this article.
For years, the superintendent of the Iowa Braille And Sight Saving School at 
Vinton has promised us that Nac is on its way out in Iowa.  The school is the 
only agency in Iowa that is still accredited by Nac.
For years, I've been hearing him talk a little about it, as well as others 
and getting such replies as "We'll take care of that, our accreditation is 
about to expire." and other good lines.
I'm beginning to think that they're just lines, and that the Board of Regents 
in Iowa will continue to waste a couple thousand dollars a year to feed to 
the fat cats in New York who don't care about good services to the blind. Nac 
has been proven to be harmful to the blind, yet, we in Iowa get answered with 
platitudes and brushed aside whenever the Nac issue comes up with school 
officials.
Here's hoping that school Officials from IBSSS will show up at our state 
convention, and here's hoping there will be an atmosphere of confrontation 
and not cooperation, as the school has been lying to us now for the last 5 
years on the Nac issue.
Anybody else have any thoughts?
Richard Webb, KB0RUU
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