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Developmentally Disabled Boy Kicked Out of Cub Scouts

By Malcolm Gay
Riverfront Times | October 26, 2004
Cub Scout pack leaders wrote to Christopher Lowe-Irby's mother and said her 7-year-old would be barred from meetings and activities "for both his safety and the other children's safety."
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Tags: discrimination, segregation, Americans with Disabilities Act, dean of the College of Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Phil Ferguson, Renee Irby, special-needs children, children & families

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