Calgary school bans disabled boy's service dog.

[jdobbin]

I happen to prefer fomenting a rebellion or coup, but basically yes.

What do you propose to do about those vicious golden retrievers?

I think that has been the policy of the government of the U.S. for many years. I don't see any evidence that it is working.

As for Golden Retrievers attacking as service dogs. The number is zero.

[Charles Anthony]

I think the kid should just go home and count his blessings. Most schooling (particularly public schooling) is an insulting waste of time!

However, I will not deny anybody the right to abuse themselves if they want it.

That being said, golden and labrador retrievers, the most common service dogs, are also among the world's most vicious breed of dog.

Slow down: the dog in question is a poodle.

This whole episode is ridiculous. First of all, school has not started yet. I think the mother is just being a mother-of-a-dog with her human rights complaint. I think this mother is setting a bad example.

Also, the following still makes no sense:

I'm puzzled at something: if the school board is not allowing the dog in school because other kids might be afraid of dogs or allergic to dogs, then what difference does a doctor's note make? Does a doctor's note make the dog less scary to other kids? Does a doctor's note make the dog hypoallergenic?

The doctor's note raises the bar a little and makes it more difficult for people to make spurious claims to need a dog or other aids in school.

It now sounds like the board is being spiteful too.

There is a chance that before school started there was a normal conversation between parent and school. However, the two parties hit it off poorly and there was a clash of personalities. What we are seeing is an escalation.

Parents can be very beligerent with respect to their second-chances-to-live-ther-life-dreams -- I mean, children. I have a very hard time with this human rights complaint.

[jdobbin]

Slow down: the dog in question is a poodle.

Poodles even have a higher rate of biting.

[Ricki Bobbi]

Than what? High school students?

Poodles even have a higher rate of biting.

[jdobbin]

Than what? High school students?

Good point. I don't why we are bad mouthing dogs when high schoolers are out there biting all the time.

[geoffrey]

I went to that high school...

Believe me, dogs are the least of concerns. It was a good clean school up until my last year there. Now I'd be more worried about the back hallway coke trade and handful of deadly weapon violence issues.

[August1991]

It was a good clean school up until my last year there.

Huh? What did you do during your last year?

[geoffrey]

It was a good clean school up until my last year there.

Huh? What did you do during your last year?

I didn't really go much actually.

I assure you I had little to do with the troubles that school now has. I wasn't there enough to.

[yam]

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Once the other kids see that Cooper is allowed to bring his dog to school, all the other kids will want muscular distrophy too!

-k

yes and they could get into customised wheel chairs too!

[FTA Lawyer]

In my line of work we call this a "media stunt"...to further a personal agenda likely due to a pointless butting of heads between mom and some teacher or school board official who don't like each other.

The reality is that every little thing that happens will lead to a complaint to the School Board...because some parent will consider their child aggreived by any decision that somehow acommodates another child. So, the doctor's note is an ass-covering step for the Board...we allowed the dog becuase it is medically necessary.

And the doctor's note is no hoop or obstacle whatsoever to the kid or his mom...one phone call to the kid's doc leads to an immediate fax to the school and presto...crisis averted.

This story is a non-story...something else is going on behind the scenes between mom and someone on the other side.

FTA

[lost&outofcontrol]

After all, any kid can walk into class with a dog, and claim it's a service dog.

Except this particular kid can't walk...

[theloniusfleabag]

Dear kimmy,

Does a doctor's note make the dog hypoallergenic?

Just a quick note, poodles have been crossed with labs, dobermans, etc in recent years, to be service dogs, because they are 'hypoallergenic', and are also highly intelligent. Oddly, they are rated #2 in canine 'intelligence' (behind the Border Collie) and were originally 'retrievers', just like the Golden Retardeds.

However, banning stuff from the many for the sake of the few is getting out of hand. Why doesn't someone create a "peanut/service dog/coloured folk -free school" for those that are offended/allergic, and have the rest of the schools for normal people?

[lost&outofcontrol]

OT. Is your nick/avatar related to the Thelonious Monks by any chance?

[theloniusfleabag]

Dear lost&outofcontrol,

Is your nick/avatar related to the Thelonious Monks by any chance?

Yes, however, as far as I know, there was just one "Thelonious Sphere Monk". I was limited to a certain number of characters when I coined the nickname, so I had to drop the 'o'. I am a music fan, and do love Jazz, but not exclusively. I woul;d have to say that my 'musical influences' would be: Tiny Tim, Metallica, Frank Zappa, Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald, and Englebert Humperdinck. To name a few.

[Melanie_]

It seems like a pretty simple request to get a doctor's note for the dog to come to school, but I wonder how much of the story we aren't seeing. Many parents of children with disabilities spend so much time fighting for thier children's inclusion; I wonder how much time and energy she has had to expend over the past 15 years just getting services for her child. It might make her quicker to defend her child's rights than those of us who have never really had to argue with the school board about our child's place in their school.

[August1991]

I woul;d have to say that my 'musical influences' would be: Tiny Tim, Metallica, Frank Zappa, Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald, and Englebert Humperdinck. To name a few.

OMG!

That's like putting chili powder on Cocoa Puffs.

[geoffrey]

Now that I think about, there was some controversy when I went to this school. There was one kid that had a prescription for medicinal marijuana, the cops would get so mad because he'd carry the maximum amount of weed around and take breaks during class to go 'smoke a joint', just outright say that to the teachers. It was quite funny.