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TexasTowelie

(111,278 posts)
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 05:00 AM Oct 2017

Montana student with disabilities was moved to basement, denied education, lawsuit claims

A teenage boy with disabilities in a rural Montana school district was segregated from other students, moved to a church basement and told to do things like watch DVDs or sort nuts and bolts instead of receiving adequate educational services, according to a lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Montana.

The 16-year-old student was allegedly segregated for several months before he was removed from school entirely.

A complaint filed last week in Lewis and Clark County District Court states the student, who is referred to as R.C., hasn't received any formal education in three years. Because the student goes to school in a rural part of Montana, the school district is also unnamed in court documents to avoid revealing his identity.

“I don’t know if the state has ever been faced with a case where a district wholly excluded a student,” Tal Goldin, an attorney for Disability Rights Montana, said. “It’s particularly egregious at the district level, but it’s equally egregious that the state of Montana knows about that and fails to act.”

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-student-with-disabilities-was-moved-to-basement-denied-education/article_8e7334f3-a643-5083-b08e-904d9639b0ca.html

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Montana student with disabilities was moved to basement, denied education, lawsuit claims (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2017 OP
DeVos lesson plan. Cattledog Oct 2017 #1
Someone should ask her about this, directly, Ilsa Oct 2017 #2

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
2. Someone should ask her about this, directly,
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 07:39 AM
Oct 2017

and if she understands that her revocation of those rules & regs will create this situation for anyone with a disability or who learns differently.

People like her look down on the disabled, in spite of the garbage she spews about her christian beliefs. If she had attended a public school with disabled students, even if the cognitively or developmentally disabled were segregated, she still would have learned tolerance, compassion, and not to be afraid.

I've said this before: I hope she croaks painfully at the hands of someone she thinks loves her.

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