Supreme Court Rules Ministry of Education Discriminated a Disabled Boy

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Family members of a dyslexic student of British Columbia won an important and long-running human rights case in the Supreme Court of Canada on Friday, announcing that the educational officials discriminated the student by not providing him sufficient programming.

The judgment stated that the B.C. Ministry of Education had been at fault by saving money through cutting the diagnostic program which would have helped Jeffrey Moore, who was eight years old at the time. The case has is being referred as a major test of the human rights laws being supportable in dealing with discrimination cases involving students with special needs.

Madam Justice Rosalie Abella, speaking for the 9-0 majority of the bench, announced that “adequate special education is not a dispensable luxury.” She added that “for those with severe learning disabilities, it is the ramp that provides access to the statutory commitment to education made to all children in British Columbia.” The lawsuit was initiated in 1997 by Rick Moore, on behalf of his dyslexic son. He claimed that the North Vancouver school district had discriminated his song Jeff, now 24-year-old, by not being able to teach him to read.

Teachers sent Jeff, who was in Grade 3 at the time, to the school district’s diagnostic centre for special attention. Although the centre was closed for financial reasons before he could be diagnosed. Consequently Mr. Moore transferred his son to another costly private school specializing in teaching children with learning disabilities. Jeff is now able to read and has graduated post-secondary school, and works as a full-time plumber.

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