In article ,
Tara Green wrote:


YOU caused it, with almost every single
action of yours.

She, by not watching you enough (probably
because of your disruptive actions), allowed
it to happen.

I'm not going into the whole BS again, but there specific reasons that I
didn't see exactly what he was doing, and I won't allow that situation
to ever happen again. Nonetheless, when a student gets "creative" about
an exercise, all sorts of crap can happen, and does.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Janet Boss wrote:
In article ,
Tara Green wrote:

YOU caused it, with almost every single
action of yours.

She, by not watching you enough (probably
because of your disruptive actions), allowed
it to happen.

I'm not going into the whole BS again, but there specific reasons that I
didn't see exactly what he was doing, and I won't allow that situation
to ever happen again. Nonetheless, when a student gets "creative" about
an exercise, all sorts of crap can happen, and does.


Oh, I agree.

As someone who used to teach classes, I don;t
bestow upon the trainer all of the magical
abilities that Paul seems to think you were
supposed to have.

If someone is going to be a seriously
disruptive and dangerous influence in class,
its not always possible to distinguish that
person from the person who is merely addled
and not trying very hard to do things well.
Bother are a pain in the ass, but sometimes
the way you find out that one is the other is
when they actually cross the line and finally
do something acutely stupid and dangerous.

Not being psychic, and wanting to give people
a fair shake and a reason to keep trying, I
could see giving him chance after chance as
well. That method has turned around more than
one tuned out idiot in my time. Of course,
the lesson here, unfortunately, is to no
longer give those folks a chance to get their
acts together and just run them out of class
instead. That's a real shame.....but that's
his legacy.

In article ,
Tara Green wrote:

Of course,
the lesson here, unfortunately, is to no
longer give those folks a chance to get their
acts together and just run them out of class
instead. That's a real shame.....but that's
his legacy.

Yup. I no longer offer free classes to anyone. Without putting money
out, a lot of people refuse to take a class seriously. I discount for
various groups, but for Joe Shmoe individual? Yes, I learned my lesson
with this one. A real shame.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com