Mom says her wheelchair-bound daughter is left out at school because elevator is broken
Sunday, September 26th 2010, 4:00 AM
Hagen for News
Eighth-grader Ashley Santiago, 13, and her mom, Rosalyn Sanchez.The broken elevator at a Manhattan middle school prevented two wheelchair-bound students from attending their first two and a half weeks of classes.
Intermediate School 143's elevator - which officials acknowledge has been broken since July - should have been fixed in time for school, one of the outraged parents charged.
"They don't understand the elevator is a symbol of pretty much everything for her," said Rosalyn Sanchez, 32, mother of Ashley Santiago, 13, an eighth-grader. "Her life is upstairs. Her class is upstairs."
Ashley spent at least one day in the first-
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