The New Caney Independent School District in Texas has prohibited a five-year-old disabled student from using her walker in school, MSNBC is reporting. LaKay Roberts has been using the walker for the past two years, as her mother, Kristi, wants her daughter to walk. But since LaKay has had cerebral palsy and epilepsy since she was born, and fell in the school parking lot in the company of her mother, the district said she could no longer use the walker.

Kristi told NBC that if her daughter “can walk now, please let her walk. Don’t strap her in a wheelchair. We’ve worked so hard. She has worked so hard.”

After Kristi made her case to the school officials, they wouldn’t change their opinion. They repeated it wasn’t safe for her daughter to use walker. But she won’t take no for an answer, even recording a conversation with a school official, and then positing it on YouTube. The school official said that “we’re gonna not do what the mother wants us to do.”

Kristi was shocked was the official’s answer, saying that as school employees, the officials are supposed to be advocates for her daughter. She said she will continue fighting for her daughter, even though the school officials say they have LaKay’s best interest in mind.

Written by: Karen Benardello