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'Can't lower standard' for seeing-eye dog

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Posted by tipper 2004-07-08 01:22|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sacre Bleu!

Posted by ed 2004-07-08 8:07:29 AM|| 2004-07-08 8:07:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Figures.

I can see their point, though. It's hard for them to "lower their standards" when they've already hit rock-bottom.

Ladies and gents, I give you the "compassionate" Left. May they rot in hell.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-07-08 10:31:52 AM|| 2004-07-08 10:31:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "We have students here who are allergic to dogs. We have students here who have religious affiliations that they cannot associate in the same room with a dog. Those kinds of things we have to take into account," she said.

Care to guess which religion she's talking about?

Posted by Rafael 2004-07-08 10:55:01 AM|| 2004-07-08 10:55:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Right-on, Barbara, Rafael.

This is too much. They are requiring a man with a seeing-eye dog to speak to the dog in English only (though the dog was trained for commands in French). The guy said he'd speak to classmates, professors, and even his dog (off duty) in English, but it wasn't good enough.

Idiots. Idiots. Idiots.

Liberals = Idiots.

Too bad he's not here in the US. He could sue the twerps for discrimination and teach all the universities a lesson in the process!

Posted by ex-lib 2004-07-08 11:14:45 AM|| 2004-07-08 11:14:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 So, I asked the dog: How have things been going?

Ruff!

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-07-08 11:17:31 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-07-08 11:17:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 There's a reasonable chance the dog is a German Shephard, in which case the only French he really needs to know are the translations for:

How much?

and

I paid you. Now go away.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-07-08 11:19:28 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-07-08 11:19:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Looked like a really nice black Lab.

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-08 11:53:14 AM|| 2004-07-08 11:53:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Damian Penny says they've changed their mind.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-07-08 1:18:01 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-07-08 1:18:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 They noted that forcing him to speak in English to his dog "could jeopardize the safety of both himself and his guide dog."

The response from Debbie Pepin, administrative co-ordinator ~~and all around bitch~~ of the English Language Programme, was unbending.

"Regardless of his disability, Mr. Tessier must meet the demands and requirements of the course like any other student," she wrote in an e-mail.

Can you say idiot? I knew you could.....

It does say he might is considering a Human Rights complaint. I wish him luck.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-07-08 1:19:05 PM|| 2004-07-08 1:19:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 whats this got to do with liberals? I thought English only, educational standards, and full imersion for learning English were all conservative causes?

And that ADA (whats the Canadian equivalent) was a liberal cause?

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-08 3:55:33 PM|| 2004-07-08 3:55:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 This is a case for a Sheltie most of them speak 3 or more languages and can read well enough to write checks in 6.

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-08 6:07:39 PM|| 2004-07-08 6:07:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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