The eight-year-old Herriman boy has Type 1 diabetes and requires multiple insulin injections a day. That is not a simple thing, but it’s not something that should have kept him out of Butterfield Canyon Elementary School all of last year.
The Jordan School District have told K.W.’s parents that they can’t send him to school because he’s too sick. They have put him on “home and hospital status,” meaning he can’t come to class. He spends his days working on math and reading workbooks by himself.
After a year of watching the youngster keeping his backpack ready for the day he can return, K.