No person otherwise qualified shall be denied the right to enter training in any college or university or engage in practice teaching for the purpose of becoming a teacher on the ground the person is totally blind or visually limited; nor shall any local board of education refuse to employ a licensed teacher on those grounds; provided, that the blind or visually limited person is able to carry out the duties of the position for which the person applies.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-5-107
Blind or visually limited teachers
Acts 1951, ch. 58, § 2 (Williams, § 2365.6); modified; Acts 1959, ch. 121, § 1; 1967, ch. 255, § 1; 1974, ch. 654, §§ 58, 59; 1978, ch. 675, § 2; 1981, ch. 172, § 2; T.C.A
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