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Tuesday, September 2, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
More schools create AIDS-related plans
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Pupils with AIDS are attending classes this fall in Kokomo, Ind., and Overland, Mo., but in Tucson, Ariz., a child with the disease will study at home until his school district works out a policy.
In Seattle, no cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome have been reported in public school classrooms, but the district is ready with a policy should the problem arise.
A spot check by The Associated Press indicates that a growing number of school authorities taking steps to deal with the fatal disease, and most are leaning toward allowing students with AIDS to attend class, provided they have no obviously contagious symptoms.
Many districts, including Rochester, N.Y., Jefferson County, Ky., and Minneapolis, have included lessons about AIDS in their curricula, or plan to shortily. Wyoming will be making a film on AIDS available to high schools.
Still, officials appear divided on what the best policies are, or whether it's wise to have any hard-and-fast rules.
"There is fear that medical facts might not be correct or may change over time," said Gary Marx, a spokesman for the American Association of School Administrators in Washington.
Since federal authorities began keeping AIDS statistics in 1981, there have been 36 reported cases among children age 5 to 12, and 102 among 13 to 19-year-olds. But it's impossible to say how many children have AIDS, since many of them have since died or are too ill to attend school. And many cases may not have been reported.
Maine calls for case-by-case rulebuns, but its guidelines add, "for most AIDS-infected schoolchildren, the benefit of an unrestricted setting would outweigh the risk of their acquiring potentially harmful infections and the apparent non-existent risk of transmitting AIDS."
Other jurisdictions, such as Seattle and Tennessee, also call for case-by-case rulings but say that in general, efforts should be made to let the children attend school.
New Hampshire is one of several states and districts requiring schools to provide home tutoring to students ruled unfit to attend class.
At the beginning of the last school year, New York authorities recommended that students not be barred from classrooms because of AIDS.
Virtually all districts maintain strict confidentiality about AIDS cases, but among those that have come been discussed;
In Kokomo, Ind., eighth-gradrer Ryan White began school this fall for the first time since his AIDS was diagnosed in 1984. Health officials ruled that Ryan, a hemophiliac, posed no threat to classmates. He was kept out of school much of last year by legal challenges from parents of other pupils.
In Overland, Mo., officials have ruled that a 6-year-old boy with AIDS may attend school this fall despite objections from parents.
But a 7-year-old unidentified Arizona boy was placed in a home study program until an AIDS policy is developed by the Tucson Unified School District.
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