this was bret hart middle school in oakland california and the mainstream public school so i was attending class with nondisabled students in not a specialized school and after the teacher for the blind talked to the mainstream teacher they realized that the teacher was writing assignments on the board and i wasn't seeing it . i was missing homework because i didn't see that it was assigned and sometimes the instructor would read the assignment from the back of the room and i didn't know homework was being assigned so i realized if i just try to be a student, i'll never be successful. i have to both be a student and my own teacher and advocate and that's when things changed. i started advocating for my rights. i started checking out one of the strategies to get close to the assignments if you can't see theassignments? i go to every teacher and ask what did i miss ? and i continue doing that through high school . my grades went off. i started getting straight a'swhen i took responsibility for my education . and the school actually was more accepting than most schools. most schools throughou