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Parent urges board to let medically complex students join extracurricular trips despite nursing-policy limits
Summary
Krista Childers, an educator and parent, told the board her daughter Reese, a statewide sticker-contest winner with epilepsy, was denied participation on an overnight National Junior Honor Society trip because the district will not provide nursing services for extracurricular activities; she asked the board to review policy and 504 implementation.
Krista Childers, an educator in Raleigh County, told the board that her 14-year-old daughter, Reese, will be unable to attend a National Junior Honor Society overnight trip because district policy excludes nursing services for extracurricular activities. "No one should be able to tell me that I can't do something because I have a disability," Childers said, urging the board to review how the district applies 504 accommodations to nonacademic events.
Childers described Reese as a…
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