A 17-year-old senior at El Capitan High School in San Diego showed up for classes one day with a gun in his car and parked the car in the school parking lot, which would normally be grounds for expulsion. But lawyers for the student argued that the boy suffers from "attention deficit disorder," which may have caused him to "forget" that he had a gun in his car. Since federal courts have ruled that a student cannot be expelled for problems caused by a disability, the student must be allowed to attend special education classes while his case is under appeal. School officials said the incident was the first they had heard of the boy's disability.

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