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A Utah family is suing after an elementary school blocked their diabetic son from going to class
Nearly every morning for the past year, Caly Watkins said that when her son woke up, he’d ask: “Do I get to go back to school today?”
“No, baby,” the mom would tell her 8-year-old, who was supposed to be in second grade. “Not yet.”
Sometimes, he’d cry. Mostly, he’d just work on adding and subtracting in his workbook while Watkins took his older sister to Butterfield Canyon Elementary in Herriman. He kept his backpack ready to go in case her answer changed.
“It’s just heartbreaking,” she said. “He wants to go to school. It’s frustrating because he’s perfectly healthy to do so.”
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2019/06/26/utah-family-is-suing/