Going way back to December, we told you about the Milton Hershey School denying attendance to a 13-year old HIV positive student. The school claimed they should be able to deny admission because the Hershey School is, “a unique home-like environment, a pre-K -12 residential school where children live in homes with 10-12 other students on our campus 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.” The AIDS Health Organization didn’t see things that way.

Today, this kid is having a good day: The Milton Hershey School (which is funded by the Hershey Company for low income and socially disadvantaged students) has announced that it will now, “treat HIV-positive applicants the same as all others and is offering admission to a previously rejected Philadelphia-area teen.” The school reportedly adopted their new policy after some … uh … “guidance” from the U.S. Department of Justice. You say guidance, we say the DOJ told them what to do, or else. You know, same thing.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 at 11:31 am.