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Parents, students urge board to preserve resource math/reading classes after district signals mid‑year changes
Summary
Parents and a middle‑school student told the Walled Lake board the district’s planned mid‑year removal of resource math and reading classes will harm students with IEPs; speakers requested the board halt the change and consider alternate staffing and scheduling solutions.
Multiple parents and a sixth‑grade student addressed the board to protest an announced change to special‑education resource classes in middle schools, saying the plan to end separate resource math and reading classes mid‑year risks academic regression and violates students’ needs under federal IEP protections.
A student, Hannah Lazorovich, spoke during public comment that she is below grade level in math and reading and credited her resource classes with restoring her confidence. “I do not want to be in a special in math class because it’s embarrassing, but…every kid who is far below needs to stay in resource in math until they get better,”…
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