News, Claim: Hershey school rejects HIV-positive Pa. boy. (public schools, pay, admission)

[JD59]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A private boarding school connected with the Hershey chocolate company says it was trying to protect other students when it denied admission to a Philadelphia-area teenager because he is HIV-positive.

The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on behalf of the unidentified boy in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia on Wednesday, claiming the Milton Hershey School for disadvantaged students violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Claim: Hershey school rejects HIV-positive Pa. boy - Yahoo! News

[zthatzmanz28]

Private is as private does. When there are no anti-discrimination laws in place, private entities do pretty much what they want--unlike public schools that address the needs of EVERY student regards of their situation.

[lauramc27]

This is very sad. I thought the hysteria over how you can contract HIV had gone by the way side long ago, I guess not.

[BuffaloTransplant]

Now, let's run that back and forth, given I only heard this about 20 times on the news:
13 year old from Philly area. Honor student. HIV positive. Desires to go to Hershey Foundation (co-ed) school. Boarding School.

My question: What parent with a kid with a disease which could be serious at any time would want the kid going to boarding school?

Go back to the article: A kid backed by the Aids Law Project. (Find a kid who does well and lets make the kid a cause --- it doesn't need to be AIDS, this is called Lawyerswhosuckbloodfromtheentirecountrytolinetheir pockets.)

Seriously, people, it is simply a ploy to get it in the news and embarrass the school and get money out of the Hershey Foundation. Will the kid get any money? Who knows?

Don't care what the cause is or the disease or anything else --- if a lawyer group is at the head of the ticket, they are out for money. The kid gets nothing out of this.

It isn't about anything but lawyers wanting to suck money out of an old and monied trust.

[anadyr21]

I was just watching this on Anderson Cooper 360. You know, especially since we just had national AIDS day, maybe there needs to be more education about recent developments. For instance, I didn't know that with drugs, sexual transmission of HIV is reduced by like 97%. I didn't realize the number was so high. I'm sure many people still have HIV knowledge from the 1980s and 1990s, when it was talked about darn near daily.

I'm still totally baffled at what the exact concern was. A representative of the school was on 360 and very poorly explained why or how the committee came to the conclusion that this child was a health risk.

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by anadyr21

You know, especially since we just had national AIDS day,

Thank you! Anyone remember a young boy named Ryan White? Unbelievable. We've regressed.

[Datafeed]

1. This is not a lawsuit aimed to extort cash from an elite east coast boarding school. It's a lawsuit aimed to compel admission to one of the nation's best schools'

2. HIV is no longer classified as fatal;it's now labeled as chronic. The kid will likely take a handful of pills each day and that will be the extent of his association with HIV.

3. The school should be ashamed of itself. If this young man is worth of admission, he should be admitted. The school's rational for denying him admission on the advice of a medical practioner is rubbish.

[BuffaloTransplant]

Originally Posted by Datafeed

1. This is not a lawsuit aimed to extort cash from an elite east coast boarding school. It's a lawsuit aimed to compel admission to one of the nation's best schools'

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If the kid doesn't get in, won't the lawyers go after a bundle of cash so he can go to an elite boarding school? Seriously. Hershey set up a school for kids who could not pay for those elite schools, but if the kid is so bright, I am sure lawyers have figured a way to suck the money out of the Hershey Trust.