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Article: a fighting chance; PACER has spent 20 years helping children with disabilities get the educations they deserve - by helping their parents speak up for them at school. And the group's new American Indian Parent Network promises to be more of the same.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 26, 1997
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Paul Woelfle can ride a bicycle 14 miles to visit a friend, but give him a hall pass and he'll never find his way back to class. Distracted by just about anything, he can get stalled by a drinking fountain or a chance game in the school gym.
Then there are the problems that get Paul kicked out of school. Like the time he was accused of using alphabet-shaped cookies to spell out violent messages on a lunchroom table. Or just recently, when the school said he disobeyed orders to steer clear of a construction site behind the school.
Paul keeps telling his mother that he feels like a reject, and the Fridley High School teachers and counselors keep telling ...