[nagdu] guiding eyes application question

[Marion & Martin]

Ron,
    With all due respect, once you have been around the block a few times, 
such things raise serious red flags. The other thing that raises huge red 
flags is the excuse that there is some sort of liability issue. We have 
heard it many times before and, usually, it doesn't hold water. My wife and 
I were once told that, because we are blind,  it was a liability issue for 
us to ride bumper cars. I guess the reasoning was that we might run into 
someone! (smile) All this while they were letting very young children board 
the cars!
    Again, my only purpose in raising such questions is for us to examine 
the policies and practices of those we want training us! Will they train us 
to be competent, independent travelers or will they limit our potential by 
their paternalism. Perhaps this particular policy has merit and is not 
paternalistic, but what about GEB's - and many other school's - ownership 
policy.
    BTW, I have never heard of a good reason for not transferring ownership 
upon graduation, but I have been told there was a "liability issue". If 
there is a liability issue for one school, why is there not such an issue 
for another? If it doesn't make you scratch your head!

Marion Gwizdala

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Davidson" <fuzzy_1 at cox.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] guiding eyes application question


> Like I said in my post all you need to do if you have a question is call 
> them. It makes perfect sense to me and I do see the need to be careful 
> about giving out information to everyone. I also don't think there is a 
> need to get all worked up over it  they are doing what most places need to 
> do for liability issues since everyone anymore is sue happy. I imagine if 
> you look deep enough into all these schools they probably all have similar 
> policies or procedures.
>
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