Autistic Kids Booted From Yearbook

Jen Chaney — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:02:00 GMT

First some kids voted an autistic boy out of their kindergarten class. Now a school in California has left autistic children out of its yearbook.

The parents of autistic twins have filed a complaint with the Placer County Board of Education because of the incident, in which the autistic/special needs students in multiple classrooms were omitted from the annual book. A county superintendent characterized it as an oversight. But it's hard to imagine how neglecting this many students could have been a complete accident.

Darla Granger, the mother who filed the complaint, tells MomLogic that she doesn't believe the school was trying to be cruel, but that the principal and others are not mindful enough about integrating the autistic kids with the rest of the students. As she puts it, "Negligence can be a form of intent if you don't care enough to fix it."

That's a valid point. Too bad it won't make those kids feel better about not seeing pictures of themselves, or their classmates, in that yearbook.

Image: MomLogic.com

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Autistic Kids Booted From Yearbook