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Parent tells Greenville County Schools board special‑education students were left off class trips; committee says state will act
Summary
At the March board meeting a parent, Keosha Holloway, said her special‑needs child was excluded from a fifth‑grade trip and called the pattern discriminatory; the board's advocacy committee told trustees the state Education Oversight Committee agreed to address a recognition "loophole" affecting students with special needs.
Keosha Holloway, a parent of four children in Greenville County Schools, told the board at its March regular meeting that her son, a special‑education student at Lake Forest Elementary, was not invited on an upcoming fifth‑grade class trip and that other parents reported similar exclusions.
"This was a form of discrimination," Holloway said, recounting that when she asked school staff why her son was not included she was told a teacher "dropped the ball." She said she raised the issue at her son's IEP meeting and was not given a clear…
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