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You should go private or STFU. Seriously. That kid deserves every opportunity to succeed. He/she deserves MORE because they don't have the advantages at home that your kids do.  It's not the kid's fault that their family is trashed.  The kid is doing the best he/she can in a bad situation.

I was that kid. My family sucked. My mom was an addict. My uncles were the neighborhood drug dealers. My dad was absent. I was sexually molested by an uncle. I was seriously messed up and struggling to keep my shit together. Despite that, I was a National Merit Scholar and excelled in school. It was tough, but I got my shit together.

From me to you, on behalf of that kid, fuck you. You are in a public school. Everyone has the right to use them. If you don't want to be around rabble like that kid or me, go to private school. [/quote]

So you think one kid has the right to deprive every other kid in the class of an education??  :roll: How is that supposed to help the troubled kid or the rest of the class for that matter. Troubled kids who disrupt on a continual basis need to be educated in a separate classroom until they learn not to disrupt. Every kid deserves an education that is not disrupted by others.[/quote]

Let's look at some of those statements:
"That kid deserves every opportunity to succeed." - how is he "succeeding"?  He's being coddled, his bad behavior is being tolerated when it shouldn't, and he's probably NOT getting as thorough of an education as he should as the time is probably being consumed by behavioral bullshit as opposed to actually teaching content.  And why should every OTHER kid in the classroom be DENIED an opportunity to succeed because of this kid's bad behavior?

"He/she deserves MORE because they don't have the advantages at home that your kids do."
Wrong.  No kid deserves "more" than any other kid.

Sorry to hear that kids are being raised in such bad circumstances, but frankly that should not be to the detriment of everyone else.  Every other kid in that classroom should not be sacrificed and have their futures thrown down the drain, just so that bleeding hearts can think they are coddling some kid who was never properly parented.

Its' not the primary mission of public school to do that, their primary mission is SCHOOLING.  I'm not saying that these kids shouldn't be helped (certainly they should) - I'm saying it shouldn't be AT THE EXPENSE of schooling and AT THE EXPENSE of every other kid in the classroom.  Social services agencies and organizations that want to help should partner with schools and provide that help in coordination with the schools in a way that does not interfere with teaching.  For example, the fight, the profanities yelled at a teacher, the punching a hole in a wall?  For that they should get detention and pullouts where they get that one-on-one intervention and are taught the life skills they are lacking.

Don't do it on every other kid's time and cost them an education, too.

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