Oberti V Board Of Education Case Study

In 1993 there was a court case was brought into the light in reference to whether or not schools should be allowed to send students outside of the district to fulfill their educational needs. The case was called Oberti v. Board of Education and the plaintiff was Rafael Oberti who was an eight year old boy with down syndrome who was being told he needed to go to a school forty-five minutes away instead of the local school. The defendant was the Clementon, NJ Board of Education, who were the people telling the Obertis that Rafael needed to go to another school. The Obertis believed that Rafael could be included in his local classroom and that all of his needs could, and should, be met without having to attend a completely different school. Their …show more content…
This falls under the legislation of the idea of zero reject because this defends the idea that a student cannot be rejected from a school because they cannot cater to that student’s needs. Furthermore, this allows that all students are given an equal opportunity toward education instead of how Rafael was going to be bused to a far away school because the district did not want to help him. That is why the court wanted the school to enact a policy such as zero reject so that all students are allowed to stay in their own town and given the aid towards their needs. Another educational rationale that is seen in the decision of this case would be the idea of related services. Related services means that all students have access to transportation and such developmental, corrective, and supportive services as are required to assist a child with a disability to benefit from special education. In the case of Rafael this would mean that he would have access to the supportive services he would need to be in the regular classroom. All in all, the educational rationales in this case show how every school should be aiding all of their students in the ways they need instead of just turning them