Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
No Result
View All Result
Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
Home DramaAlert

School Apologizes For Excluding Graduate With Disabilities

rmtsa by rmtsa
June 17, 2024
in DramaAlert
0
School Apologizes For Excluding Graduate With Disabilities
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


You might also like

‘Years Get Away From Us’

Julie Benz, Busy Philipps, Ron Perlman Starring In Movie ‘Horrified’

Looking back on the early days of LGBTQ2 rock – National

School Apologizes For Excluding Graduate With Disabilities

by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman

June 17, 2024

The school district superintendent apologized to the student at a June board meeting.

Georgia school officials have apologized to a student with disabilities after excluding her from participating in her high school graduation.

Sprayberry High School in Marietta, Georgia, held its annual commencement ceremony on May 25. However, while many families saw their graduates cross the stage, one mother found out that her daughter would sit out.

Linda Ramirez found out at the ceremony that the special education students would not receive their diplomas with everyone. Instead, they would walk the stage and exit before the official graduation began.

“They call the special needs students one by one [to] walk across the stage and exit out a left hallway, to exit outside behind the building,” explained Ramirez, whose daughter Ashlynn Rose Rich graduated from the Individualized Education Program (IEP) to People. “And by the time they were done, they were just starting the general ed kids commencement ceremony as far as issuing diplomas. I was very upset…I’m like, ‘Why did we even come?’”

She added, “Everybody that had a special needs child got up to go collect their kids,” Ramirez continues. ”And during this, the commencement ceremony is in full; it’s happening. So, our kids missed it all. They didn’t get the turn of the tassel. They didn’t get to see the opening speeches, and they didn’t get that big walkout.”

Cobb County School District Superintendent Chris Ragsdale apologized to Ramirez and her daughter in response to the incident. He claimed that the decision was “well-intentioned” despite the outcome.

“While I cannot say more about the experience of the Rich family at the Sprayberry ceremony, I can say this,” explained Ragsdale at a board meeting on June 13. “First, on behalf of the district, I apologize to Ashlynn and her family. It does not matter how well-intentioned it appears a decision was made; it should have been a parental decision.” 

Rich explained her thoughts on the experience to the board members. She shared that she felt “mistreated and discriminated against” for not being able to take part.

“I felt mistreated and discriminated against because I was not allowed to sit with my classmates. Many of my friends are regular students, and it made me sad that I couldn’t sit with them and experience graduation together.”

The school district also released a statement on the issue. It detailed that families of IEP students allegedly usually decide how to celebrate graduation.

“Some Cobb families choose a full graduation ceremony; some choose to protect their child from noise, stimuli, or attention in a variety of ways. Every child’s needs are discussed individually and confidentially, so that the specific needs of our special needs students are met,” detailed the statement. “This year, although initial reports indicated those choices were offered, we discovered they were not offered to one student at Sprayberry High School. Our expectation, and the parents’, was not fully met.”

While Rich and her mother accepted the apology, a district investigation into the incident is also underway.

RELATED CONTENT: Low-Income Black Children With Sickle Cell Face Denials Of Disability Benefits



Source link

Tags: ApologizesDisabilitiesExcludingGraduateSchool
Share30Tweet19
rmtsa

rmtsa

Recommended For You

‘Years Get Away From Us’

by rmtsa
June 23, 2025
0
‘Years Get Away From Us’

"Some motherf--ker's going to have to call me Papa," Depp said, noting how his children no longer refer to him as that. Johnny Depp is opening up about...

Read more

Julie Benz, Busy Philipps, Ron Perlman Starring In Movie ‘Horrified’

by rmtsa
June 23, 2025
0
Julie Benz, Busy Philipps, Ron Perlman Starring In Movie ‘Horrified’

EXCLUSIVE: Julie Benz (Dexter), Busy Philipps (Mean Girls), Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Jim Rash (The Way Way Back) are to star in horror-comedy Horrified. The film will see a down-on-her-luck...

Read more

Looking back on the early days of LGBTQ2 rock – National

by rmtsa
June 23, 2025
0
Looking back on the early days of LGBTQ2 rock – National

Music can be a very powerful thing when it comes to changing the world. Rock has been used to spread political and social messages. It has been used...

Read more

Drake Takes Another L After Gambling Away Millions

by rmtsa
June 23, 2025
0
Drake Takes Another L After Gambling Away Millions

Drake loves to flaunt his wins, but it looks like the 6 God is also ready to keep it real about taking an L – a multi-million dollar...

Read more

Clips Of Kamala Harris And Donald Trump Speaking On Iran And World War 3 Resurface After Trump Strikes Three Iranian Nuclear Sites Amid Israel-Iran Conflict

by rmtsa
June 22, 2025
0
Clips Of Kamala Harris And Donald Trump Speaking On Iran And World War 3 Resurface After Trump Strikes Three Iranian Nuclear Sites Amid Israel-Iran Conflict

Clips are resurfacing of former Vice President Kamala Harris and current President Donald Trump individually speaking on Iran and wanting to prevent World War 3, while slamming the other...

Read more
Next Post
‘Street Fighter’ Movie Loses ‘Talk to Me’ Filmmakers

'Street Fighter' Movie Loses ‘Talk to Me’ Filmmakers

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Browse by Category

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized

CATEGORIES

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized
No Result
View All Result

Recent News

  • MOVIES: Predator: Killer of Killers Review: The Ultimate “What if?”
  • Bride Reportedly Gunned Down At Wedding, Groom Injured
  • Ezra Miller Talks About ‘Remorse’ as They Address Past Controversy

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In