School stops Down's girl doing leaving cert

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 21 - A Bologna high school has prevented a 19-year-old female student with Down's Syndrome from doing the Italian school-leaving certificate, the maturità, this year, the Corriere di Bologna newspaper reported on World Down Syndrome Day Tuesday.
    The young woman, Nina Rosa Sorrentino, wanted to sit the maturità at a human sciences high school in the Emilian capital.
    The liceo decided not to enter her for the exam despite the school's child neuropsychiatry unit being in favour of it, the Corriere di Bologna reported.
    Sorrentino's family decided to withdraw her from the school year so she can make another attempt to do the leaving cert next year. (ANSA).