People with Disabilities

Children with disabilities are guaranteed an education by the Charter but schools cannot meet their needs on a full time basis.
(Example: In 2001, an Ottawa father went to court to force one of the local public schools to accept his 9 year old son, Zachary, as a full time student. The school argued that it didn't have the funds to assist Zachary for more than two days per week. The poor boy has a seizure disorder and almost no speech. At first he got arrested for taking his son to school on the other three days but later the charges against him were dropped.)

(These poor sweet children are still experiencing barriers to achieving equality.)

~ The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~