I agree with Sandra - even if the instructor is friends with this woman, you are a paying customer, and should be listened to!

I had this exact thing with Captain. I LOVED the one trainer we always had - he used to talk to me about giving Captain some "time outs" during training (because the spotty boy got BORED with SIT more that 3 times in a row ), So I would do the SIT a few times, and then walk Captain away to the trees, and come back for the next thing.

WELL, uselesss young moron taught one day, and called my dog stupid!!!!! Stubborn, ........... and said that the dog has control of me, YELLED at me - Where are you going? MAKE the dog pay attention ............... blah, blah ........... don't walk away, do the whole class .......... so I walked out!
Went up to the NICE guy who was training an advanced class and told him. He had words with the young guy (who I found out later ONLY like GSD's! - thought all other dogs were STUPID!)

Needless to say, about 3 weeks later, the young guy took our class again ......... and I went home immediately, never to return.
I did have a chat with the nice guy after that, and he was all apologies ........ but still, I didn't go back. It still makes me MAD to this day that I didn't perservere and show this guy how wrong he was.

You stick it to her!!! Malone - not a pure bred - WHO CARES - just look at his beautiful face!!!!! He is gonna prove her wrong too!

AND - sorry, anyone who is still training her dog every week after 3 years of training and NOT doing agility or something else is ODD! Just shows you that she CANNOT train her own dog anyway!!!