Students with autism missing from yearbook; Parents complain
June 19th, 2008
From KCRA TV, the NBC affiliate in Sacramento; News10, the ABC affiliate; and MSNBC:
A couple in Placer County, California, says their children and others with special needs were left out of the Quail Glen Elementary School yearbook. Darla Granger, who searched in vain for photos of her sons Holden and Hunter, said she thought the omission was intentional.
“I do have a hard time understanding how they could have not noticed that every autistic child from their campus was missing,” Darla Granger said. She and her husband have filed a complaint with the Placer County Board of Education.
School officials said the omission was a mistake, and said the yearbook had been coordinated by a parent volunteer
(Graphic: screen capture from KCRA video.)
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June 21st, 2008 at 10:15 am
I am trying to help keep up with with this for Darla. I am her aunt. Just thought you might like to know that a former staff member of the school confirmed that this was intentional.
Go to the channel 10 Sacramento web site blogs and her statement is pretty conclusive. Not only were they left out this time but this has been the norm for years. They purposely even have the special needs kids do picture make up day because they say that they don’t have the scheduling time for them. Anyway, this person knows firsthand that it was discrimination.
I am not sure what the solution is but I can tell you that it is a nationwide problem and needs to be addressed. These kids are extremely smart and they KNOW what is going on. They just can’t articulate it … yet.