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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More facilities such as RICA, a partnership between the state of MD and MCPS, which provides special education and intensive therapeutic services, are badly needed. The increase of students with significant mental health needs, including serious aggression, is crippling our system’s schoolhouses.[/quote]
Sick kids running a fever are not allowed to be at school. Mentally sick kids who are violent should not be at school either.[/quote]

But where should they be?

I'm not being contradictory- I agree with you. But what do we do with the children who are unable to safely stay in a classroom. We have programs with smaller group sizes of 5-15, but those are really hard to get into. Do we need more of those programs? For a child needing mental health services, should social services provide the services?[/quote]
No, mentally ill, violent children do not belong in the public school system at all. Schools are not medical facilities.

Maybe there’s a physician on the medical forum who can offer some insight as to what these children need. 
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Do they not deserve to be educated? Or just not deserve to be in public schools?

By law, they have to get an education. It is up to the school systems to figure out how. I absolutely agree that this should be joint discussions with the medical community. There needs to be more places like RICA that combine education (by MCPS) with therapeutic services (from the state of Maryland). Interestingly enough, RICA is allowed to deny any student who they feel is too much for them. How crazy is that? Public schools get no such option. Maybe in school suspension with virtual instruction? Just rambling here.[/quote]

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