A school bans a kid with cerebral palsy from using her walker

[nekomika]

Mom Plans to Sue School District

HOUSTON - The mother of a child with cerebral palsy is preparing to file a lawsuit. She's outraged after she says New Caney ISD told her five-year-old daughter she could no longer use a walker at school.

Comments

[spicytoys]

What is unsafe about a walker?

[lastrega]

I guess they're having a tizz about the risk of the child falling. Which happens, but then all kids fall every now and then.

[inthisheaven]

Wouldn't it be more unsafe if she WASN'T using her walker to assist her?
o_O

[spicytoys]

Seriously.

[iamglory]

THIS!

[archanglrobriel]

See, you're thinking about this logically and sensibly. That's not a route these people tend to go down, from my experience.

[changethemusic]

ugh.. of course this would be in texas.

way to go, houston. way to go.

[nitasee]

Um, it's not in Houston. It's in New Caney. The story was covered by a Houston news station (a Fox station, sadly).

As native Texan, I'm often embarressed by my state. But Houston, generally, is a much more sane place.

[nitasee]

Sometimes, I think the stupid has taken over my state. That's the only way I can explain Rick Perry.

[lux_roark]

Isn't this against IDEA? My parents had to fight tooth and nail to give my little sister the education that she deserved. I really hate how they treat children with disabilities.

[bestdaywelived]

It absolutely is.

[wrestlingdog]

Yeah, this has "ADA violation" written all over it.

[ladyvoldything]

yeah this violates like five different laws