[NAGDU] Guide dogs in school districts

[Wayne & Harley]

*Hello,
To put it very bluntly. The Superintendent is violating the ADA ( The 
law that pertains in this situation ) and discriminating against your 
friend and any other Guide Dog Owner that may enter the district's campuses.

Wayne And Harley

*On 2/9/2017 7:10 AM, Nancy VanderBrink via NAGDU wrote:
> Good morning all,
>
> I come before your collective wisdom to put before you a question of access versus liability.
>
> A friend of mine is working on getting her bachelors degree in special education and wants to eventually move into my states TVI preparation program.  What is interesting is that rather than her being able to do her student teaching in a  school that is on a bus line and that is also relatively close to her university has nothing to do with the fact that other students from her class are in these schools, as we thought.
> Rather, it has to do with the fact that the superintendent of the school district said that he did not want a guide dog in his school district.
> What is interesting to me is that I am a service provider working with a contractor that provides services in the school district. I serve students in this district twice a month. I have had no problems with administration or staff or students.
> So, I am thinking that this comes down to a matter of liability and that it is different because I do not work for the school district.  I am not an independent contractor, rather I work for an agency that contracts with the school district-and I just so happen to have a guide dog.
>
> So what I am thinking is that they, meaning the district, could say to a potential employee 'we do not want you here because you have a guide dog' but they cannot say that to me because I work for the agency they contracts with and they cannot say to them that they do not want me as an employee of that other agency in their school district.
>
> So, essentially what I am getting down to is that this sounds like a violation of this university students right to access. What I am wondering is are they able to get away with this legally because they are dealing with the premise of liability and the potential liability for the district if that students dog were to bite a child.
>
> I believe I have heard other stories on this list of people that have had similar issues but I wondered if your collective wisdom knew of anything that I could pass along to the student.
>
> Thanks,
> Nancy
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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