“I was a drummer. Always [got] an A,” says Bob Barton, a student a Rock City Elementary School in Nanaimo.
At least, he was an A student. Barton is in a wheelchair and music class this year has been in a portable without a ramp. It means the avid drummer hasn’t been able to attend the class this school year.
“It’s unreal, I can’t believe it,” says his mother Shannon Raines. “I wish people would step up and resolve the issue so I wouldn’t have to go to extremes for my son to have access to a public building.”
Dale Burgos, Director of Communications for School District 68, says a solution has been reached.
“The music class is going to be moved. That’s already in the works, they’re just figuring out where exactly in the school they’re going to do that,” he told Global News.
However, a date for that change hasn’t been announced yet, leaving Bob wondering when he’ll get to practice with his classmates again.
“To me it’s discriminatory,” says his mom.
“If one student can’t get into a building, then no one should be able to.”
– With files from Kylie Stanton
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