An unnamed school district in British Columbia has been ordered by the province’s human rights tribunal to pay $5,000 to a student for failing to accommodate her anxiety disorder.
Tribunal vice-chair Devyn Cousineau said in a decision released last month that the school district “failed to take reasonable steps” to investigate and address the female student’s anxiety over her transition to high school in fall 2018.
The family had filed the human rights complaint in 2020 accusing the school district of discrimination based on her placement into a language class that “exacerbated her disabilities and impaired her ability to access her education.”
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