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Central Falls parent urges district review after special-education student injured at school
Summary
A Central Falls parent told the Board of Trustees that her adult son, enrolled in the district's special-education program, suffered a fingertip injury at school and that she found staff response and communications inadequate; the district did not issue a policy decision at the meeting.
A Central Falls parent told the School Board of Trustees on March 25 that her adult son, who attends the district’s special-education/transitional warrior program, suffered a fingertip injury at school and that she was not satisfied with the school’s communications and on-site response.
The parent, identified in the meeting as Janice Ramirez during public comment, said she received multiple missed calls before answering a call that indicated paramedics were present and her son would be taken to the hospital. Ramirez said she could not identify which hospital staff had taken him and that, when she arrived about an hour later, her son’s fingertip had been treated. She described her son as nonverbal and said the incident left the family…
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