Kitchener, Ont., family sues Catholic school board alleging discrimination against 4-year-old boy.
A Kitchener, Ont., school in the Waterloo Catholic District School Board , shown in this 2022 photo, is at the centre of a civil lawsuit by the mother of a student. Earlier this year, the school called police on the four-year-old to de-escalate an incident.
The lawsuit seeks $1 million in damages, costs of the legal proceeding and any further relief that may be suggested by the courts. A copy of the lawsuit was obtained by CBC News. It alleges the school board failed to accommodate the child's behavioural needs, implemented learning changes without consent and ignored the family's personal recommendations to help him.
Despite her disapproval of the plan, Grace reached out to a child psychologist who said her son was too young to have any "meaningful" results on an assessment. The civil suit alleges the school failed to follow its own protocol of classification of incidents for calling police. The protocol suggests police can be called for various incidents, including assault, bomb threat and death.