Mariela Azarpira excitedly flipped through her son's yearbook last month only to find that he and other special needs students were not featured. “It’s like he didn’t exist,” Azarpira said.
Azarpira flipped page by page, slowly poring over every inch of the end-of-year keepsake looking for her son’s face or name. But she reached the end of the 186-page Las Vegas school yearbook last month without finding any reference to her son, Samir, a 22-year-old special needs student.
The next day, she cried as she checked the yearbook again, desperately hoping that she’d just missed something, that her eyes had tricked her. But still, she saw no photos of Samir.to bring attention to the omission, which she said “completely outcast” special needs students. That same year, he began attending the Northwest Career and Technical Academy. He is part of the federally funded Program Approach to Career Employment, known as PACE, which prepares high school graduates with disabilities for the workplace.Samir quickly made friends in the program and rarely missed school, his mother said. Through PACE, he worked at a Goodwill store once a week, earning a certificate for completing a student-work program.
The following day, she slipped the book out from her desk and again scoured its pages. The weight in her chest felt heavier as she turned each page without any mentions of them.
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