By the time a 6-year-old shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school, the system had already failed him. But it is not a story unique to one child or even one state.
The unidentified child has an “acute disability,” according to his family, and like 7 million other students in the U.S., he receives an education plan designed for students with disabilities, according to the family’s lawyer.
Those education plans, while well-intentioned and legally binding, are often at the center of cases where U.S. schools fail to abide by them.
