The Williamson County school district in Tennessee was recently ordered to pay the legal fees incurred by parents who spent three years fighting for their sons educational rights.

Writing in the Sept. 25 edition of The Tennessean Mitchell Kline provided the following details about the case:

The lawsuit hinged on whether Chase Kildgore, who is now attending college at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, would receive tutoring and have an individual education plan under federal laws regulating special-education students. Chase Kildgore was diagnosed with ADHD in May 2003, before entering the seventh grade.

A year later, schools officials declared that he was not eligible for special-education services but came up with an education plan for him. ...

Then the boy was involved in a fight at Independence High School, where he admitted to striking another student. After meeting with the boy's doctor, father, teachers and counselors, school officials decided the fight was not manifested by his ADHD and therefore followed normal procedures for disciplinary action, suspending him from school and sending him to the county's Alternative Learning Center for 20 days.

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