A 13-Year-Old With #Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside.
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#Disability rights advocates said #kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s #school threats law. And they tried to push for a broader exception for kids with other kinds of disabilities. It didn’t work.

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A 13-Year-Old With Autism Was Arrested Under Tennessee’s School Threats Law

Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law. And they tried to push for a broader exception for kids with other kinds of disabilities. It didn’t work.

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Alice and Frieda

‘Alice and her daughter Frieda sit in the parking lot. Alice knows what other parents judge her for – being a mother who can’t get her child to school. Frieda, now eight, has autism and is one of the thousands of children in Australia experiencing “school refusal”, also known as “school can’t” – children who have difficulty attending school due to emotional distress."

Photograph: Mridula Amin

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