Guidance counselor claims Seeing Eye dog got her bounced from school

A New York City school guidance counselor was re-assigned Monday, claiming she was sent packing because she relies on a Seeing Eye dog.

According to WABC 7, blind guidance counselor Tami Hernandez-Rosenberg filed a complaint with the Department of Education alleging that Principal Frederick Underwood, of Intermediate School 285 in Brooklyn, harassed and discriminated against Hernandez-Rosenberg because she came to work with a guide dog.

Hernandez-Rosenberg, 45, alleges that Underwood has altered her schedule over the past several years, has added to her responsibilities and constantly changed her assistants in an effort to force her to leave the school.

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"He made it very clear that he didn't want the guide dog in the building, what about the kids with asthma and allergies and so forth," Hernandez-Rosenberg told the station.

Hernandez-Rosenberg started teaching in 1993 and became a guidance counselor at IS 285 in 2001, DNAinfo.com reported. Then, after brain surgery in 1996, she was left legally blind. She also suffered partial paralysis on her left side at that time.

An injury in 2011 made her eligible for a guide dog, and Hernandez-Rosenberg trained with Lonnie, a black Lab, during that summer and returned to school with him the start of the next school year.

Now Hernandez-Rosenberg has been sent to another school, transferred there this week, but hopes to get her old job back.

Underwood told one reporter, according to WABC, that he supported Hernandez-Rosenberg and her dog. "We did that which was above and beyond what we had to do, we complied to all her accommodations," adding her complaint is a "contradiction to what took place," he reportedly said.