Update } HIV Positive Student Denied Admission
As expected, people were fired up about this story that broke Thursday. And in trend with the times, a massive Change.org petition was launched overnight calling on Milton Hershey School officials to reverse their decision and admit an HIV-Positive student to the school.
"Schools should be allies, not enemies of students living with HIV,” said Lawrence Stallworth II, now age 20, who is leading the campaign on Change.org with Advocates for Youth.
“It shouldn’t be the responsibility of a 13-year-old boy to teach the Milton Hershey School about the science of HIV or the moral obligation educators have to meet the needs of all students. But this young man is doing just that – and we all have a responsibility to have his back," Stallworth said.
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Just in time for World AIDS Day comes news that Pennsylvania's Milton Hershey School has rejected the admission of a male student because he is HIV positive. Details follow.
Reports NBC Philadelphia:
The private boarding school doesn’t deny that they rejected the boy’s admission because of concerns for the health and safety of fellow students. They even petitioned to have the court review the case, they said.
Milton Hershey School released a statement Wednesday saying in part that “in order to protect our children in this unique environment, we cannot accommodate the needs of students with chronic communicable diseases that pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others.”
Milton Hershey School released a statement Wednesday saying in part that “in order to protect our children in this unique environment, we cannot accommodate the needs of students with chronic communicable diseases that pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others.”
(Source: Towleroad)
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