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Charleston-Huntington Live and Local West Virginia News - Deaf Student
The question of whether a South Charleston student who is hearing impaired should be required to attend Capital High School is headed to mediation.
Ariel Depp, a 16-year-old who has been home schooled this year, has been the center of a battle with the Kanawha County Board of Education.
Depp's mother, Regina Pine, was in Kanawha County Circuit Court Tuesday morning for a hearing. Pine was recently charged with truancy, but Pine said she believes the charges will be dismissed because she presented the proper paperwork to demonstrate that Depp has been home schooled this year.
The family filed complaints and lawsuits against the board of education because it requires all high school-aged hearing impaired students in the county to attend Capital High School. Depp had spent a total of four hours each day on a bus to the school, but lives only a block from South Charleston High School.
Pine said Depp experienced bullying and harassment at Capital High School and she refuses to send her daughter to the school.
During Tuesday's hearing, Judge Charles King ordered the issue to go to mediation, pointing out that Pine had been unable to secure a lawyer, and mediation would be easier to navigate.
King asked for Anne Lambright to be the mediator.
The question of whether a South Charleston student who is hearing impaired should be required to attend Capital High School is headed to mediation.
Ariel Depp, a 16-year-old who has been home schooled this year, has been the center of a battle with the Kanawha County Board of Education.
Depp's mother, Regina Pine, was in Kanawha County Circuit Court Tuesday morning for a hearing. Pine was recently charged with truancy, but Pine said she believes the charges will be dismissed because she presented the proper paperwork to demonstrate that Depp has been home schooled this year.
The family filed complaints and lawsuits against the board of education because it requires all high school-aged hearing impaired students in the county to attend Capital High School. Depp had spent a total of four hours each day on a bus to the school, but lives only a block from South Charleston High School.
Pine said Depp experienced bullying and harassment at Capital High School and she refuses to send her daughter to the school.
During Tuesday's hearing, Judge Charles King ordered the issue to go to mediation, pointing out that Pine had been unable to secure a lawyer, and mediation would be easier to navigate.
King asked for Anne Lambright to be the mediator.