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Unresolved fence dispute means Villa Park boy needs to find new school

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Villa Park Elementary District 45 officials are looking for a new therapeutic day school for 10-year-old special needs student Gabriel Cloutier-Regan after his mother, Susan Cloutier-Regan, was told he can no longer attend the School of Expressive Arts and Learning in Lombard. Cloutier-Regan had raised concerns about the lack of fencing between the school and nearby wetlands.

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Wetlands border three sides of the School of Expressive Arts and Learning at its new Lombard location. The son of one Villa Park family concerned about the site's lack of fencing no longer will be attending the school after a dispute about fencing could not be resolved.

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Marshy areas classified by DuPage County as protected wetlands border three sides of the School of Expressive Arts and Learning. Despite one family's urgings, school officials have said they do not think installing fencing between the building and the wetlands is in their best interests.

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A Villa Park boy whose family is concerned about safety at the School of Expressive Arts and Learning's new location in Lombard no longer will attend the school. Susan Cloutier-Regan said school officials denied her request to install fencing around the new building, which is bordered on three sides by natural wetlands, and told her during a meeting this week that her son no longer is welcome. "I was pretty disgusted," she said.

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