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Student Says She Was Forced To Drop Class After Seizure

ASPEN, Colo. (CBS4) - A former student at Colorado Mountain College says she was forced to drop a class because she had a seizure.

Channing Seideman was in the middle of an emergency medical technician class when she had an epileptic seizure. She said faculty members asked her to drop the class, saying the episode was too distracting to other students and there could be more.

Seideman said it was a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and she's filed a complaint against the school.

She doesn't want other people to experience the same thing.

"They're allowed to have a seizure in class. They don't have to get kicked out. It's kind of just paving the way for other people with disabilities or epileptics," Seideman told CBS4.

Colorado Mountain College did not return calls from CBS4. It told the Aspen Times it cares about all its students.

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