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Some of the most common complaints he and state school board member Michelle Fecteau heard were a lack of easily-accessible information for parents on how to work with administrators to create Individualized Educational Plans, or IEPs, bullying by administrators at IEP meetings, and schools that refuse to accommodate special needs students. Also discussed was the use of seclusion rooms and restraints on students. Calley says his colleagues in Lansing are shocked to learn teachers use those tactics in Michigan to deal with students, with those students often times being autistic or in the special education system. He is trying to ban the use of those practices.
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The lieutenant governor has a survey available for special education parents online at Michigan.gov/calley where he’s asking for blunt assessments of what’s happening in the system. He told the roughly dozen parents at Benton Harbor High School that they don’t have to convince him there are problems, as he’s witnessed them firsthand with an autistic daughter. The next forum is tomorrow at Centerline High School, followed by Traverse City next Wednesday.
