[nagdu] {nagdu} guide dog in high school

[Debbie Cole]

Best of luck to you Danielle

On 7/13/12, Danielle Sykora <dsykora29 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I will probably get my dog from The Seeing Eye which has a lower age
> limit of 16.
> In my school, during your senior year, you can take half days if you
> also take a college class. I have been considering this option and if
> I choose it, my dog will be working in my high school in the morning
> and a college campus in the afternoon. I am also on the track team so
> my dog would be coming to practice with me each day during the spring.
> I would only be working the dog for one year. I will turn 16 in my
> junior and hopefully attend training during the summer.
> Danielle
>
> On 7/13/12, Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC) <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com> wrote:
>> Danielle,
>> Why do you want a dog when you're in high school? I'm curious and also
>> nosy.
>> How do you think a dog will help you?
>> You may want to read the book Light A Single Candle. It's a bit out of
>> date
>> now, but the emotions surrounding bringing a dog home are very much on
>> point.  It's about a high school girl that got a dog.
>> I got my first dog a month after I finished high school.
>>
>> I am no longer using a dog, and I don't know if I will again.
>>
>> I was talking about this with my mom recently and when I told her I may
>> never go back to a dog, she asked why. I told her that I love not needing
>> to
>> take the dog's needs into account. I don't know what that says about me.
>> I
>> like dogs.  If I could borrow one, I think I'd be fine with the needs.  I
>> just have no desire to fit a guide into my life and do so ona 24/7 basis.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Tracy Carcione
>> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 10:02 AM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] {nagdu} guide dog in high school
>>
>> There was a 16-year-old student in my first class at GDB.  She did fine
>> in
>> class, but I heard she returned the dog in less than a year.  I heard she
>> got a lot of the "Does the dog have to come?" stuff from her family, and
>> the dog didn't get enough work.  I got some of that same stuff from my
>> family, but I was older and would stand up to them, and also mostly not
>> living at home, so it didn't really matter. I felt bad for her.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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Debbie Cole

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