In response to a mother’s request for a ramp, school officials remove stages
When Abby Baskett began to prepare for her middle school graduation this year, she told her mother she wanted to go across the stage with her classmates.
So her mother, Sarah Humphrey, approached the school about the possibility.
Abby is one of two students in the middle school class of 2016 who is confined to a wheelchair. She has been a part of the class from day one, and Humphrey said her daughter wanted to graduate the same way as her friends.
But according to Humphrey, what started as a simple request turned into a mess.
“I never asked for special treatment,” Humphrey said. “I wanted inclusion, not an exception.”