Wednesday, May 29, 2002

Gwinnett principal blasted for denying graduation walk

An Atlanta-area high school student, paralyzed in a car wreck in 1999, wanted to use a walker and leg braces to walk to receive her diploma last week. She was wobbly but able to do so at practice. The principal, however, decided that wasn't good enough and made her use a wheelchair instead, even though her mother had signed a waiver. Yet another in the long line of attempts to infantilize high schoolers.

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