Students Help Special Needs Students Get Chance At Homecoming Court
After discovering a rule that banned special needs students at Lawrence Free State High School from being homecoming king and queen, students at Lawrence Free State took up the cause and have gotten the rule changed.
“I found out he wasn’t on the list, and I was really concerned, I didn’t understand why,” Free State student Bailey Knowlton said.
Along with the title of being classmate, friend and senior at Free State, Owen Phariss may soon be given a new title — homecoming king.
For Phariss, who has Down syndrome, the chance to be king may not have come it weren’t for a few … queens
Read more here: Students Help Special Needs Students Get Chance At Homecoming Court – Education News Story – KCTV Kansas City.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.