A 13-YEAR-OLD Delaware County honor-roll student was denied admission to the Milton Hershey School, which serves low-income students, because he's HIV positive, a federal discrimination lawsuit filed Wednesday in Philadelphia alleges.
The complaint came the day before World AIDS Day, pointed out Ronda Goldfein, executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, which filed the suit.
The boy sought admission to the Hershey school's residential program for this school year, according to the complaint, but was told that his application would not be considered because "[the student's] documented needs are beyond the scope of the Milton Hershey School programs."
