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Jordan Collins

‘This is discrimination’: Mother claims school threatened her with a fine for taking her disabled child out of school for medical treatment

A mother from the UK has claimed that she was charged for taking her son out of school to receive medical treatment outside the country. The woman’s son suffers from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), although she claimed that a swim lab outside of the UK helped her son to walk the year prior; however, the school is now threatening to fine her.

“I am so unbelievably done with the systems that are built in the UK,” TikToker Meg said in her video, adding, “I just feel like they are set up to make disabled people and families of disabled children fail.”

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