An outraged mom says her child with autism was issued a detention slip because she coudn't afford the ingredients for a school project.
each September knows that it isn't cheap to keep your kid inand Five Star notebooks. But there's also a difference between simply failing to get all of the"required" new school supplies and not being able to afford them. As one mom on Twitter recently shared, she was heartbroken when she learned that her son had received a detention slip -- for, of all things,"A poverty detention," the mom wrote in her January 15 tweet.
"[He] won't wear a coat so today he will be soaking wet and in trouble," she explained."I feel horrible.""This is appalling, to treat any kid like this is sickening," one commenter wrote in the thread."Solidarity to you and family."
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