A Wake County mother says the school system has agreed to provide an extra instructional assistant to try to keep her 6-year-old daughter with autism from running out of the school again.
Arya Futch has a history of running away from her teachers, including on Aug. 25 making it a half-mile down the greenway from Heritage Elementary School in Wake Forest. On Friday, her mother, Brittany, said Heritage Elementary Principal Amy Harmon informed her that the district approved the school’s request to place an additional person in the classroom to watch Arya.
“It’s very relieving,” Brittany Futch said in an interview Friday with The News and Observer. “I feel safer sending her to school. It’s been almost two years now that we’ve been begging for an aide with all of her eloping.”…