Posted on 05/12/2008 10:30:52 AM PDT by GOPGuide
A student teacher who uses a service dog for his epilepsy has had to leave his position early after a Muslim student harassed the animal, and worse. Tyler Hurd needs the dog for his protection and for emergency supplies for first-aid responders, but apparently Technical High School in St Cloud believes that Hurd’s needs are secondary to providing a dog-free zone for its Muslim students. Hurd says he feels threatened by the action, as well he should — because the student threatened to kill the dog:
A St. Cloud State University student in a teacher-training program at Technical High School left the school in late April because he says he feared for the safety of his service dog.
The school district calls it a misunderstanding, and officials there say they hoped Tyler Hurd, a 23-year-old junior from Mahtomedi who aspires to teach special education, would continue his training in the district. Hurd said a student threatened to kill his service dog named Emmitt. The black lab is trained to protect Hurd when he has seizures. …
Hurd trained at Talahi Community School and Tech. He said his experience at Talahi was good. The Somali students there warmed to the dog and eventually petted him using paper to keep their hands off his fur, Hurd said.
Things didn’t go as well at Tech, Hurd said. Students there taunted his dog, and he finally felt he had to leave after he was told a student made a threat. Hurd met with Lockhart but said he did not feel comfortable continuing.
King Banaian notes the ridiculous nature of the school’s response:
So let’s take a look at this as a case of competing rights. On one side we have a student with a medical disability. One would think that the Americans with Disabilities Act would allow this student to participate to the fullest extent possible in pursuing his goals, which is to teach in special education. To do so, he is supposed to train in both elementary and secondary school settings. (The article notes that Hurd had no such problems with Somali students at his elementary school assignment.)
On the other side, we have a student at Tech HS whose faith considers dogs unclean and is asserting his right to education in an institution without dogs. This not only affects student teachers; any student with a sight or hearing disability may use a dog for assistance and might want to also attend Tech HS. …
But when rights collide, as they did here, whose rights did they choose to uphold first?
That’s easy. They upheld the rights of the side that threatened capitulation or violence. Instead of expelling the student for his threat and making an example of him, they chose to coddle the student and chase the teacher out of his job. Afterwards, they issued the normal multi-culti mewlings of “misunderstanding”, “growth process”, and emphasizing respect for different cultures.
I’ve got a suggestion: how about teaching that respect to the people who issue threats, instead of their victims? Which person needed an object lesson in respect more, the Somali student or Tyler Hurd?
The First Mate used to use guide dogs here and in California. On more than one occasion, she initially got refused cab service when using Cory. Only after she explained that the law required them to give her access did the cabbies relent.
We have laws in this country, decided on by democratically-elected representatives. If Muslims don’t like these access laws, then let them elect representatives that will reverse them, or failing that, go back to Somalia where violence trumps the law and they would be more comfortable. Shame, shame on Technical High School for buckling under to thugs and abandoning their responsibilities in such a cowardly manner.
Update: When I first read the article and King’s post, I had the impression that the school got complaints from the Muslim students, but the story doesn’t explicitly say that. I’ve reworded the first sentence, although it’s still entirely possible that they complained to the administration. If they didn’t, it makes the administration’s move even worse.
The muzz are cruisin’ for a bruisin’. My dog is not a service dog, but she is the best of all things: She is my buddy. If a muzz (or anyone, for that matter) threatened to kill my dog, my dog would be the last thing he ever threatened.
“Islam is incompatible with freedom and Western culture. They are here to force us to bend to their rules. When will we stand and fight? When it’s too late?”
The government won’t act to reverse this surrender to islam. It will be up to the American people themselves to do it. The muzz will make one push or one demand too many, and then they will be toast. That day is not far off.
It is amazing what some dogs can do. Mine is mostly good at playing beach ball soccer and barking.
I watched a program last nite - Animal Miracles, I think - where a police bloodhound was able to track a baby that had been kidnapped and placed in a pickup truck by air scent tracking.
Over the course of a couple of hours, I take it, the police, led by the dog, located the baby 20 miles from where it was taken - freeway on and off ramps, California metro streets.
When the dog led them to the freeway, they would pick up the dog and take it to the next exit (so the dog didn’t have to walk the whole 20 miles) Amazing!!
“Better to handcuff them and repatriate them from 40,000 feet.”
Sounds like a plan.
“Never, ever, ever.....EVER, trust someone who doesn’t like dogs. Not liking a particular dog? Sure. But dogs as a whole? Seriously? There’s something wrong with such a person. Very, very wrong.”
Exactamundo.
Well, that's asinine, untrue and crap. What a cheap shot at Christians.
Allow me to fix it:
Everyday democrats are to the KKK as everyday Muslims are to "Islamic Supremists"
“There’s less chance of getting bit.”
Besides, dogs a much cleaner.
“We made a mistake when we let the first one of those peculiar followers of the crazy pedophile enter the country.”
A potentially fatal mistake.
“They also hate the dogs because they know the dogs are superior beings to them and what’s more........the dogs know it too:)”
Yup.
“I do at least treat them on a ‘Verfiy Before Trusting’ basis.”
You’re far more accommodating than I am. I don’t trust a muzz at all.
Sorry. Rights don't collide. Nobody but a liberal a-hole believes rights collide. Even if he is Ed Morissey.
I am familiar with WTF and WTH, but WHF I never saw before...
When you surrender your intelligence, your common sense, your conscience, your honor, your courage and your very soul to political correctness, witheringly un-American travesties like this become the rule and all our enemies triumph. I’m sorry, but that dog performs a greater service to mankind than that benighted, selfish, fanatical piece of Somalian fesces will ever do.
When you surrender your intelligence, your common sense, your conscience, your honor, your courage and your very soul to political correctness, witheringly un-American travesties like this become the rule and all our enemies triumph. I’m sorry, but that dog performs a greater service to mankind than that benighted, selfish, fanatical piece of Somalian fesces will ever do.
bfl
I was thinking along the same lines.
Breed about 4 million rabid chihauhas and drop them near that rock thing that they all seem to have some unholy fascination about.
They’d be hauling butt around that thing pretty good, uh?
Defenestration should also be an option..
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