[NAGDU] Faster training times. Is this a growing trend?

[Cindy Ray]

When you get your dogs at TSE on Wednesday, or at any school for all that, do you do a short route on Wednesday instead of just around the campus. We didn't do much earlier, but then we did do the leisure path with our instructor. Then the time shortened, and I wondered if they do something short like, in the cse of TSE, the Maple Street Route, or whatever tht short little route is called.
Cindy Lou


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From: NAGDU <nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jenine Stanley via NAGDU
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2018 1:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Faster training times. Is this a growing trend?

Part of the reason schools don’t like to bring people in on weekends anymore is the cost of weekend flights. Plus, if your flight is delayed or cancelled over a weekend, well, it’s tougher to arrange things and for some people, if the flight is cancelled until a Sunday, there’s little to no transport on the person’s home end. It’s a tough thing to balance. 

GDF went to a 14-day class several years ago and until shrinking the ratio of instructor to students, it was too compressed. Now that we have 1 instructor per 2 students, people get the time and attention they need. Plus in our case, we beefed up the training to include routes to the transport vans and back with different obstacles and such. 

> On Aug 17, 2018, at 2:30 PM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tara.
> I've done the schedule you're doing at TSE twice, and it's been fine.  A couple of my classmates had dog switches, so had to stay extra with the first-timers, but that's a great thing about the way TSE runs classes--retrains get out early, unless there's a problem.
> I do think first-timers need more time to get accustomed to working a dog, as well as getting into good habits of work and care.  I think GDB is offering everyone very short classes, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.  But then it's been a long time since I was a first-timer, and maybe it's not as hard as I remember.  
> I think, overall, it's a good thing.  Most of us have active lives, and it can be hard to get away.
> 
> I'm very amused that your message said "guy ducks" for Guide Dogs!  Dictation, I guess.
> Tracy
> 
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> Subject: [NAGDU] Faster training times. Is this a growing trend?
> 
> Hi all! I recently got the wonderful news that I will be going to get my new puppy on September 24. I will be going to the seeing eye. Back in 2009, I arrived on the Saturday and we got our dogs on Monday afternoon. This time, I will be arriving on Monday and we will get our dogs on Wednesday morning. This arrival on a Monday means that our training at the Seeing Eye has been shortened by two days. I gather that other kind of schools have done a similar shortening of training. I think that guy ducks the blind has shortened their training by quite a bit although I don’t know this for sure. Anyway, am I accurate in saying this is a growing trend among Guide dog training schools? If so, what are anyone’s thoughts or experiences? Thanks!
> Tara
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