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"It is illegal under federal law to prevent a student from attending school based on perceived HIV status, but an Arkansas school district has banned three students, all siblings, from returning to class until they submit to an HIV test, according to a local advocacy group.
The Disability Rights Center of Arkansas (DRCA) reports that the Pea Ridge School District found documentation suggesting the children's birth mother, and one of the children in the school, may be HIV-positive.
School administrators then sent a letter to the children's foster family saying they would be prevented from attending classes until they submit to an HIV test."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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