After an Atlanta teen completed in-patient psychiatric treatment, his school required him to "transition" through a psychoeducational program, part of the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS.
The South Metro GNETS program, in Forest Park, was a place of continual screaming in the halls and an almost total lack of academic instruction, the teen’s mother said. Her son – like all his classmates at South Metro – is black. In fact, although 20 percent of Atlanta Public Schools students are white or Hispanic, every Atlanta student assigned to GNETS is black.
Click here to see a breakdown, by school, of the Atlanta students enrolled in GNETS.
“It’s like the ghetto,” the mother said.
Schools across the state send a disproportionate number of black students to GNETS programs, segregating them by disability and race, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found.
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