Guyana needs a school for the blind, says teacher Ingrid Peters

Ingrid Peters

After spending thirty-six years in the teaching profession, more than half of which was spent teaching the blind, Ingrid Peters is distressed about the education afforded to children who are blind and is strongly advocating that a special school for them be established.

Peters, who recently retired and is herself blind, pointed to the fact that the Unit for the Blind at the St Rose’s High School is still just a unit after 33 years and that this was an indictment of the Ministry of Education which she said is yet to learn about special children and their educational needs.

The mother of two, who is one of the persons who helped found the unit for the blind told Sunday Stabroek  in a candid interview, “The unit there is more failure than the successes, this is my opinion [and this] has to with the Ministry of Education, notwithstanding the fact that the Disability Act was passed in 2010 and disability has come a long way as