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(Health Care News) — St. Croix Preparatory Academy, a charter school in Stillwater, Minnesota, expelled a first grader with speech disabilities for refusing to wear a mask.
The school board of St. Croix Prep voted unanimously to expel the student, who has an individualized education program (IEP) for delayed speech and other learning problems, on December 2. The child’s parents had petitioned for weeks to overturn the school’s mask mandate in their child’s case, which went into effect on September 7.
Abby and Jake Lee, the student’s parents, provided an exemption to the mask mandate from a licensed medical provider, following Minnesota law, and offered alternatives to the school to keep their son and others safe. The Lees say the school offered no accommodation and suspended the boy four times since September, causing him to miss critical class time.
‘Appropriate Remedial Action’
The school will not discuss the matter, says Jon Gutierrez, executive director of the taxpayer-funded school,
“St. Croix Preparatory Academy cannot comment on specific student disciplinary issues because of the Academy’s data privacy obligations,” said Gutierrez.
“As a general
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