South Charleston Student's Case Heads To Mediation

• {Charleston, West Virginia}...The question of whether 16 year old Ariel Depp, a South Charleston student who is hearing impaired, should be required to attend Capital High School is headed to mediation. Depp's mother, Regina Pine, was in Kanawha County Circuit Court Tuesday morning after recently being charged with truancy. Pine says she believes the charges will be dismissed because she presented proper paperwork to demonstrate that Depp has been home schooled this year. The family filed complaints and lawsuits against the board of education because it requires all high school-aged hearing impaired students in the county to attend Capital High School. Ariel Depp had spent four hours each day on a bus to the school, although she lives only a block from South Charleston High School. Pine says Depp experienced bullying and harassment at Capital High School and she refuses to send her daughter to the school. Judge Charles King ordered the issue to go to mediation and asked for Anne Lambright to be the mediator.