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Students with Autism Leave School After Bullying

From the Washington Examiner, Washington, DC (April 24):

Autistic students pulled from school after bullying
By Leah Fabel

WASHINGTON - As the number of autistic students in Montgomery County swells, the district has funneled some of them into programs where the most socially vulnerable students sit in desks alongside the most emotionally disturbed.

The situation at a program at Gaithersburg High School has proved dangerous enough for some parents to pull their children out of the school system and to seek legal counsel.

According to his mother, Alec Carlson, diagnosed with high-functioning autism, started to be bullied on his first day as a ninth-grader...

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Student with a Disability Beaten Unconscious on School Bus

From KDKA (CBS affiliate in Industry, PA) - April 22:

Local Special Needs Student Beaten On School Bus

INDUSTRY, Pa. (KDKA) ― Cell phone video recorded by students captured the beating of a special needs student in Beaver County on a school bus.

A 17-year-old student allegedly beat a 16-year-old student unconscious on a Western Beaver school bus last week.

"It was just shocking and appalling that students would videotape it and that someone would even think about hitting someone who was disabled," Linda Lamantis, a parent, said...

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