Legal Issues

Boy’s exclusion from playground goes before judge

By on August 22, 2004

The parents of a home-schooled Falmouth boy with a form of autism, who has been banned from a public school playground, say they still hope their son will be allowed back at the playground when school opens in less than two weeks. Gayle Fitzpatrick and Charles Rankowski went before Judge Thomas Humphrey on Friday in York County Superior Court seeking an injunction to allow their son, Jan Rankowski, 9, to use the Plummer-Motz School playground...