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Family asks Harrison County Schools to provisionally enroll senior after state grants religious exemption
Summary
At the Aug. 19 Harrison County Board of Education meeting, a parent and his daughter said the West Virginia Department of Health granted a religious exemption but the district and United Technical Center disenrolled the student; the family urged the board to provisionally enroll the student while the matter is resolved.
At the Aug. 19 Harrison County Board of Education meeting, Robert Cobb asked the board to provisionally enroll his daughter, Zoe Cobb, at Robert Seabird High School and at United Technical Center after the county and UTC disenrolled her despite what he says was an approved religious exemption from the West Virginia Department of Health.
The request came during the public-delegations portion of the meeting. "My daughter, Zoe Cobb, has been denied her right to an education," Robert Cobb told the board. "We did not ignore the law. We complied with it fully. We applied for the exemption, and it was granted." He urged the board to provisionally enroll Zoe while any disputes are resolved in court.
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