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strive for a perfect educational experience, nothing is perfect and Carter's education thus far was reasonable. Tony Stack, the top education official in NL, argued that Carter's education was adequate, and he wasn't aware of any complaint(s) by the
Churchill family until he learned of the Human Rights Complaint; despite one of Carters ASL teachers being incapable of signing her own name, and the Churchill's raising concerns about the quality of Carter's education since he attended kindergarten. In the end, the Churchill family were successful in their discrimination case against NLESD, and were awarded a settlement of $ 150,000.
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The tribunal opened with Carter's parent's Todd and Kim
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Unwilling to silently watch their child receive a substandard education, the
Churchill family filed a Human rights complaint in the province of NL. With two years of attempting to mediate a resolution to their son's lack of education, Carter's parent's Todd and Kim had vowed to take the issue of
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