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Parents, Students Urge Plymouth School Committee to Let ILC Students Stay With Peers at PCIS
Summary
Parents, students and a Federal Furnace Elementary School staff member urged the Plymouth School Committee on April 28 to explore ways to keep students in the district’s Intensive Learning Center (ILC) with their existing peers when they move to middle school, rather than transferring them to a different middle school because of budgeting and staffing constraints.
Parents, students and a Federal Furnace Elementary School staff member urged the Plymouth School Committee on April 28 to explore ways to keep students in the district’s Intensive Learning Center (ILC) with their existing peers when they move to middle school, rather than transferring them to a different middle school because of budgeting and staffing constraints.
The request came during the meeting’s public comment period, when Sarah Maloney, a Plymouth resident and mother of four with several children in Plymouth Public Schools, described the impact on her son Luke, who has Down syndrome and limited verbal language. "Inclusion is not a charity," Maloney said. "It is for everyone." She asked the committee to "explore options that will allow all children within this district to be able to move forward in secondary education with their typical peers to their…
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