'Inclusive' School Is Forcing Out Down Syndrome Student: Report

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY — A Brooklyn Heights school that lists being inclusive as a core value has been trying to push out a student with Down syndrome, the New York Post reported.

Mother Kim Williams-Clark told the paper that staff at P.S. 8, at 37 Hicks St. haven't developed a curriculum for her 9-year-old son Wesley since he started more than a year ago. Teachers usually ignore him and he spends his school days with an iPad, she said.

"They have a sign that says no place for hate, and they advocate to be inclusive," Williams-Clark told the New York Post. "But all we’ve experienced here is isolation and separation. It’s all talk."

Williams-Clark told the paper she thinks P.S. 8 has been ignoring her son in an effort to get him to leave, with one staff member even manhandling and mocking him until he cried.

A spokeswoman for the DOT told the Post they were investigating the staffer but denied that officials were trying to push the boy out of the school.

"The superintendent’s office and Field Support Center staff have been working closely with the family to address these concerns as quickly as possible," the spokeswoman told the Post.

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