[nagdu] Tell the whole truth

[Tami Kinney]

Laurel,

I am glad to know that the issue was resolved as well as could be in the 
end. I am so sorry that your friend had to go through this!

So the dog is with her, so that she can decide where it will spend its 
retirement? That is good, and I hope things work out well for both of them.

For myself, I thought you handled the request for a friend well. It's 
never easy to do that, but if someone needs assistance now and doesn't 
have time or whatever to seek answers themselves all over the place... 
Then what are friends for but to use their sources of information and 
assistance? /smile/ It's always tricky on a public list, though, because 
you need -- or at least, I always feel I do -- to protect the privacy of 
the friend and walk a careful line with specifics of the oth party, as 
well. If It's not my own story, then I don't have the right to give 
details! So I think you took that tack, too.

Anyway, best to your friend. I look forward to meeting her when/if she 
joins us here!

Tami

On 04/11/2012 09:20 AM, Laurel wrote:
> Well, I don't mind telling you all the name of the school. I just
> wanted to be careful when I first posted here because I didn't wanna
> start a "school war" or you know make people get all mad and defensive
> or anything. My main concern was helping my friend. It's going to work
> out fine with her by the way. The school that my friend was having the
> problems with was Southeastern. I want you all to know that I
> personally don't know much about them and don't have a problem with
> them, I can't really judge southeastern seeing as I have never had a
> guide from there. Also, please know that my previous messages I tried
> to leave my opinion out of it, I just tried to relay my friends issues
> and what she told me. Personally, I'm sad that this happened to my
> friend and it's unfortunate that Southeastern couldn't have dealt
> better with it. I learned a little more about the situation yesterday,
> and lets just say they lied to my friend regarding some issues with
> her dog. I'm not going to go into the details, but suffice to say she
> has been traumatized.
>
> I think it's good too if we talk about the negatives of a school, in a
> respectful manner, as well as the positives. I also know there's a
> fine line between discussing the negatives and bashing a school, and I
> just wanted to be on the careful side, especially since I haven't been
> on this list long, I didn't want anybody to mistake my messages as
> school bashing.
>
> I really appreciate these discussions and everybody's imput especially
> with my friend, we have found it helpful for sure and she will soon
> join this list.
>
> Sorry, I know this is really lengthy. /smiles/
> Laurel and Stockard
>
> On 4/11/12, Larry D. Keeler<lkeeler at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> And sometimes it might not be an issue necessarily with the school but with
>> the student.  For example, we had a student in our class whom I really hope
>> didn't get her dog.  She was in for a retrain 4 months after she got her
>> first dog.  They gave her a second.  SShe would poo-poo everything the
>> trainer said and sleep all day and skip training sessions.  She gave the dog
>> attention only when she wanted to play with it!  Well, I sure hope the
>> school kept track of what she did with the dog if she got him at all!  Just
>> noting that I learned well and passed with Holly with little effort.  Some
>> students may develop resentments or the schools may not get a good feeling
>> about a student iether.  I thaught my trainer was great!  Most of us did
>> but, maybe 2 or 3 may not have felt that way!
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "William Vandervest"<timelord09 at att.net>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:24 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Tell the whole truth
>>
>>
>>> i agree whole heartedly, i want to know both the good and bad even if its
>>> about my school
>>>
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