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Parents tell Harrison County board ADA requests were ignored, allege wrongful unenrollment
Summary
Three parents told the Harrison County Board of Education that district officials failed to process ADA accommodation requests, that one student was unenrolled after the October funding count, and that the Department of Health guidance and state law assign ADA precedence for medical exemptions.
Chris Scharnhorst, a parent of four Harrison County Public Schools students, told the board he was alarmed after an Army recruiter visited junior homerooms the week before Thanksgiving and asked students to complete a questionnaire that included health information, driver’s-license or permit data and social-media handles. "He said he had put ‘prefer not to answer’ or did not answer most of the questions," Scharnhorst said, and he and other parents wanted clarification about why students were contacted directly and whether parents had been notified.
Jessica Cobb, a parent, said her 17-year-old daughter, Zoe Cobb, has been excluded from school since early September and that the district has not responded to repeated requests to initiate the ADA interactive…
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