CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT v. GARRET F., a minor, by his mother

CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT v. GARRET F., a minor, by his mother 106 F.3d 822 Background: Garret F., a student in petitioner school district, is wheelchair-bound and ventilator dependent; he therefore requires, in part, a responsible individual nearby to attend to certain physical needs during the school day. The District declined to accept financial responsibility for the services Garret needs, believing that it was not legally obligated to provide continuous one-on-one nursing care. At an …

…I think the state should provide a separate fund for the heath care of disabled students so that the funds used to pay the nurse are not the funds that are supposed to be used for buying books and stuff like that. If it took money from the majority of the students I would be against the ruling of the court because it is hard to learn current history from books that were published in 1982.