May 30, 2019, Howell, MI, WHMI-FM: Admins: Disruptions Caused By Both General & Special Ed. Students https://www.whmi.com/news/article/administrators-say-disruptions-caused-by-both-general-and-special-education-students Officials with Brighton Area Schools have provided some clarification about student disruptions at Hawkins Elementary School in Brighton. On Wednesday, WHMI reported that special education students were causing daily disruptions at the school to the point where a class may have to be evacuated 2-3 times a day because of a disruptive or violent student. Teachers at the school board meeting Tuesday night expressed their frustration at the fact that nothing was being done by school administration to improve the situation. Hawkins, at Lee and Rickett roads just south of Brighton, houses most elementary level special education students in the Brighton Area School District. Among them are those who have the most serious emotional or behavioral problems. However, district administrators, who didn’t want to be quoted in the story, say it is both special-and-regular education students that have been causing disruptions — not only at Hawkins but also at other Brighton schools, as well as other districts. The issue, in part, is being blamed on a state law passed in December of 2016: Public Act 394 (link below), which prohibits touching a student unless the child is deemed a danger to himself or to others. The measure is known commonly as the Seclusion and Restraint Law. As a result of the law’s application in the last couple of years, in many Michigan public schools a visitor might see a teacher or paraprofessional following a student around as the child roams the halls, or even causes damage, and the adult does nothing about it for fear of breaking the law. The law was promoted by former Lt. Governor Brian Calley, who has a child with Autism. …
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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