The Wake County school system is reportedly refusing to grant a school transfer request from a parent of a 5-year-old who needs insulin injections.
Hatcher’s son had been going to a child care program run by Highland United Methodist Church that is trained in providing emergency insulin or glucagon injections. With his son scheduled to begin kindergarten in August, Hatcher requested a transfer for him to attend Lacy Elementary School, which is very close to the church.
“We were trying to make it easy on them,” he said.
But school administrators and ultimately the school board rejected the transfer request, citing crowding at Lacy Elementary. Lacy is under an enrollment cap, meaning students who weren’t previously living in the school’s attendance area can’t attend.
In other words, the system wins out over the needs of this little boy. This is a great example of why parents should be in control of educational dollars. When that happens, parents will be treated as customers, not as cogs in a system.
Is this case a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act? This parent’s federal civil rights complaint against the after-school program provider — the YMCA of the Triangle — is part of this story.
