Family’s Heartbreaking Fight for their Son’s Education
by The Daily Eye Team November 26 2013, 6:11 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secsGreg’s nightmare scenario of losing Max isn’t hypothetical. Schools have lost him in the past. Once, he escaped through a broken gate and into a field adjacent to a feeder street to the highway. When his father found him, Max was just feet away from oncoming traffic, walking toward a soccer goal at the field’s end. Although his story ended happily, it doesn’t always for others. Avonte Oquendo, a 14-year-old New York City boy with autism, is still missing more than four weeks after walking out the front doors of his public school.Find out more here