ORANGE COUNTY ALMANAC : 10 Years Ago Today . . .
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. . . Eleven-year-old Channon Phipps, a hemophiliac who became the first California student barred from a public school for being HIV-positive, returned to Rancho Canada Elementary School.
A judge ordered Saddleback Valley Unified School District to reinstate Channon, who said after his first day back: “It was nice to be just one of the kids again.”
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