School Emergency Policy: Leave Wheelchair-Bound Kids Behind

[docwebster]

WESTMINSTER, Md. -- When a Carroll County, Md., high school had an emergency evacuation, everyone got out except for two students who were confined to wheelchairs.

They were abandoned in the stairwell on the second floor.

I wish I knew what to say.

Comments

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

One would have hoped that 9/11 might have done more to bring more awareness to the problem that, by and large, most buildings with more than one floor are only wheelchair accesible unless or until there is some emergency where using an elevator is not an option - one would hope but one would be disappointed...