Parents want him in regular classes.

From the Boston Globe. The case involves the Cohasset Middle/High School in Cohasset, MA.

The school, which filed suit earlier this year to keep the boy in special education, is arguing that the boy needs the one-on-one supervision and additional tutoring provided in its special education program. It also is asserting that the boy needs the help of a specialist to cope with a communication disorder.

The boy’s parents, Peggy and Kevin Lewis, had asked the school to remove their son from special education in June. They have said that the school district is harassing their child by monitoring him too closely and that additional services, such as tutoring, are not helping him.

The case is considered unusual by education observers because disputes over special education generally occur when school districts object to parents’ demands for special education. Cohasset officials are arguing that letting the boy out of special education would deny him his state right to a free and appropriate education.

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