AEGiS-UPI: Teen-Age AIDS Victim Learns Science at Home

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Teen-Age AIDS Victim Learns Science at Home

United Press International - March 10, 1986

KOKOMO, Ind., March 10 - Ryan White, the 14-year-old AIDS victim, set up a home laboratory today so that his seventh grade science teacher could instruct him on dissecting a grasshopper in the youth's first home teaching session since he was banned from school in July.

Ryan's classmates at Western Middle School were to watch on a computer screen, but the principal refused to discuss the session.

Other school officials, although unable to confirm whether the 45-minute class took place, said the seventh grade science teacher decided to go to Ryan's home because that was the best way to teach dissection.

Except for one day last month, Ryan has been officially barred from attending classes since July 1985.

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