Cobb boy fit the profile for Georgia’s ‘psychoeducational’ programs
A 7-year-old student from Cobb County fit the profile for Georgia's psychoeducational programs: male, diagnosed with a behavioral disorder — and black.
About 35 percent of Cobb County students are black, but African Americans make up 53 percent of those assigned to the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Click here to see a breakdown, by school, of the Cobb students enrolled in GNETS.
Across Georgia, the Journal-Constitution found, schools send a disproportionate number of black students to the programs, segregating children by disability and race, the Journal-Constitution found.
About the Author
Alan Judd is a former investigative reporter for the AJC. He has written about persistently dangerous apartment complexes in metro Atlanta, juvenile justice, child welfare, sexual abuse by physicians, patient deaths in state psychiatric hospitals, and other topics.
