Nenad Mihailovic, who says he was stuck in special needs schools for years. A man who claims he was falsely placed in special needs schools for years is now suing the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to the tune of €38,000. But when on the first day of school he could barely speak German, school administrators declared him mentally disabled and sent him to a special needs school. When the family later moved back to Cologne, he was again placed in a special school - without school administrators properly reviewing that he belonged there, he says, according to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. The group further explained that special needs schools often have absolutely no interest in questioning whether a student previously defined as mentally disabled should remain at the school.

Source: The Local March 08, 2017 14:48 UTC