Aydin's Fight for Access: Broken Elevator Threatens High Schooler's Education

0:00It's April 10th. This is Calgary News today, your AI-powered local news. A Calgary High School student named Aiden Alley faces big barriers at Joan Cardinal Schubert High School because the elevator has been broken since. November. He's in grade 11 and relies on a wheelchair more these days due to chronic foot pain from a rare cancer called Neuroblastoma he was born with. Without the elevator in this three-story building, he can't reach over four classrooms. The school moved him to a small room on the ground floor where he works alone and some classes went fully online. His family says they pushed the principal and vice principal's hard but got no real fixes. Just shrug saying there's nothing they can do. Aiden's dad points out the toll it's taking. His son's grades are slipping without teacher help or peer chats during those tough teen years. Aiden himself misses the face-to-face learning in subjects like English and math and hanging with friends who even suggest carrying him upstairs. Isolation like this hits hard mentally and socially for a bright kid who's always done

1:02well. The only other option from the school is switching to a different campus mid-year. But that would break up his friend group which they won't accept. Meanwhile, the education minister stepped in saying the boards on it and he'll follow up to get it sorted fast. As Aiden nears grade 12 in university apps that lean on his current marks, his family worries times running out. They're pushing for real access so he can thrive like everyone else.