Here is an excellent case of rules taking precedence over common sense. In Chicago, apparently, no one on the educating side thought about fixing the problem with requiring the educated to pass driver’s ed, even if they are blind or sight impaired.
Most high school students eagerly await the day they pass driver’s education class. But 16-year-old Mayra Ramirez is indifferent about it. Ramirez is blind, yet she and dozens of other visually impaired sophomores in Chicago schools are required to pass a written rules-of-the-road exam in order to graduate  a rule they say takes time away from subjects they might actually use.
Not everyone is oblivious to the problem:
“It defies logic to require blind students to take this course,” Meta Minton, spokeswoman for the state Board of Education, told the Chicago Tribune in a Friday story.
And here’s someone showing the typical bureaucratic response (that would be lay blame on the suffering party):
“I can’t explain why up to this point no one has raised the issue and suggested a better way for visually impaired students to opt out of driver’s ed,” said Chicago schools spokesman Michael Vaughn.
In other words, it’s not *our* fault these people have to do this – they haven’t asked out of it. Never mind that it doesn’t make any sense.ÂÂ
[tags]Driver’s ed, bureaucracy[/tags]