Autistic student denied graduation [View all]
"I won't be able to graduate. I can walk, but I can't graduate," said Coffers.
His grades are good enough; the problem is that he has not been able to pass the math exam required for every Georgia student to graduate high school.
"Once he starts it, and he learns it, he can do it. But when you walk away, he forgets the steps," said his mother, Linda Coffer.
Sinclaire is autistic. The state allows for students with disabilities to apply for a waiver that allows the state board of education to vote on whether or not to throw out the exams, and allow a student to graduate. In Sinclaire's case, the board denied a waiver for reasons his family has not yet been told.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/18346292/autistic-student-denied-graduation
Sorry, it's a faux affiliate, but it's all I could find on short notice. Everything else was video.
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