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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Land finds in favor of the private Christian school in a race and disability discrimination action brought by a mother on behalf of her son arising after he was dismissed from the school. The son, who is Black and has been diagnosed with autism and ADHD, was considered withdrawn from the school after the headmaster refused to agree to a therapy plan to return the son to in-person classes. The mother failed to show that the son was qualified to return to the school even with the requested accommodations. The mother failed to show that white students were treated less harshly than the son or that their misconduct was materially similar to the son's. The school's reasons for dismissing the son based on his continued behavioral problems and history of property destruction were not pretextual.