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Palm Beach School District Sued Over Mental Health Policy
The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday by advocates for disabled and minority children, called the district's policy "excessive and illegal."
June 23, 2021
The Palm Beach County public school district is being sued by several advocacy groups over its practice of making hundreds of students undergo mental health examinations at psychiatric facilities each year.
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The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday by advocates for disabled and minority children, called the school district’s policy “excessive and illegal.”
The groups claimed in the lawsuit that the school district had deprived hundreds of children of educational opportunities and inflicted unnecessary trauma by forcing them into mental health centers over unthreatening behavioral incidents, The Palm Beach Post reported.
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