Letter to the editor – Parents are supposed to send their children to school with the basic belief they will return home, safe, sound and without physical or emotional signs of abuse.  This is not the case in the Wayne Intermediate School District (WISD) and for far too many Michigan students with disabilities (and without)

The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN), known to parents of children across America as their states’ Protection and Advocacy agencies, has issued a formal call to action with their January 2009 report, “School is Not Supposed to Hurt: Investigative Report on Abusive Restraint and Seclusion in Schools.”  Parents are supposed to send their children to

In the 1976 film, Network, a nightly news anchor played by actor Peter Finch, says, “”I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” And while I have no desire to meet the same fate as Mr. Finch’s character and be shot to death for my passionate stance on America’s abysmal