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From Staff and Wire Reports
RICHMOND — The authority to decide whether a child with AIDS may be barred from public school lies exclusively with local school boards, Attorney General William G. Broaddus says.
“The General Assembly has clearly vested the responsibility for these decisions in our local school officials,” Mr. Broaddus said last week in an opinion requested by state Health Commissioner James B. Kenley.
Mr. Broaddus said state health authorities are not permitted to determine which students should be excluded from class.
Mr. Kenley had asked the attorney general to determine who has the authority to decide whether students with AIDS can attend school.
Mr. Broaddus said local school officials should consider qualified medical advice and information furnished from sources such as the child’s physician in determining whether to exclude a child from class. He also said state public health officials may furnish information to school boards to help them decide how to deal with AIDS cases.
AIDS — acquired immune deficiency syndrome —is a disease, nearly always fatal, that suppresses the body’s immune system. Most of the victims are homosexual men, but others can be infected through blood transfusions or use of infected hypodermic needles.
School officials in many parts of the nation are grappling with the issue of how to deal with pupils afflicted with the disease.
The problem surfaced in Virginia public schools for the first time last week when a 5-year-old kindergarten student at a Henrico County elementary school was found to be suffering from AIDS. Si hool officials ordered the child removed from the s 'he , and the child is being tutored at home.
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