[NAGDU] student eligibility

[joy.relton at icloud.com]

Vanessa,

My findings are similar. In fact, I worked parttime while I trained with my second dog because my first dog had to be retired suddenly due to health problems and I didn't have any vacation time because I was newly employed. Also, sometimes people training with dogs have to do part of their training from home for various reasons. In short, dog guide schools are progressing with their clients in how they are integrating with life.



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Cc: Vanessa Lowery <val4dogs at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NAGDU] student eligibility

I can only speak for The Seeing Eye, but they do want to know whether you are working, in college, or homemaker, or retired, etc. It depends on the individual whether working or not as to when they could be called into class. A number of the people who were in my last couple of classes were able to do work while at The Seeing Eye with their laptops. In fact, there were a couple of attorneys in my 2023 class who did work Using their laptops during some downtime. So it is not unusual for some people who already work remotely to bring some of their work with them. Same thing for students who are in class. It's a little bit less likely that a student would be in class at any other time other than the summertime, but there are exceptions. And my 2023 class, there were two high school students. I am assuming that they did classwork online.  Both were seniors in high school.


Vanessa and the zoo
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> On Mar 13, 2024, at 1:46 PM, Julie A. Orozco via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I thought they asked those questions to get a sense of when the 
> applicant might be available for class. Someone who works or is in 
> school will be less available than someone who isn't working.
> 
> Is that incorrect?
> 
> Julie
> 
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> Subject: [NAGDU] student eligibility
> 
> Hi;
> 
> I have noticed that the first question that many schools ask is are 
> you working.  As the bulk of the blind population ages I would hope 
> that schools would adjust their program to accommodate older students 
> who may not be working but are still active.
> 
> Richard
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