A group of parents and advocates filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday against the state of Georgia over a program they say segregates students with emotional and behavioral disabilities.
The lawsuit says that students in the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Supports Program, or GNETS, are kept in completely separate facilities from other students or in separate wings in schools.
“They don’t have access to role models and peer environments — or prom, lunch, playgrounds, science, a lot of the things that we would say is really a part of the school experience,” says Leslie Lipson, an attorney with the Georgia Advocacy Office, a nonprofit that’s part of the lawsuit.
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