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12,000+ Texas kids sent to court for missing class, no one tracks what happens next

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From KXAN News

“Nathaniel Karle’s brother answered a knock at the door on April 15, then called back into the house for Nathaniel to come to the porch. There was a uniformed officer there who needed to speak with him.

Body camera footage of the encounter shows 17-year-old Nathaniel stoically step outside to face the constable. Beneath the surface, Nathaniel was feeling the opposite, he later told KXAN in an interview.”

“…Olivia Lee, an attorney with Disability Rights Texas, said she’s seeing an increase in the number of students with special needs across the state being sent to court.

“It’s coming up more and more frequently lately, which is concerning,” Lee said. “I feel like schools don’t really know what to do with it when it comes to students with disabilities. They treat it as a general education issue.”

Read the full story on the KXAN News Website.