A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling against the Atlanta Public Schools for accidentally misdiagnosing a student as mentally retarded. The system must now pay up to $152,000 to send the boy to a private school. Jarron Draper, now 21, was misdiagnosed with mental retardation by the school system in 1998. In 2003, a test showed he actually has dyslexia, a learning disability. Draper's attorneys say the school system was slow to remove him from the restrictive class for mentally disabled students even after the new diagnosis.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Court sides with mis-diagnosed student
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3/10/2008 03:43:00 PM
Labels: Atlanta Public Schools, dyslexia, jarron draper, learning disability
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