Cost of Disruptive Students

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Originally Posted by DanaC

As long as it is the law that all children be educated, then it is necessary to make some accomodation for the square pegs. If all children mustbe educated, and only a tiny percentage of parents are able to provide that in a way that meets that legal obligation without sending their children to a school, then it is necessary to ensure all children, including the outliers, are catered to, in some way, by the education system.

It is inexcusable to place such a legal requirement of attendence on children without ensuring that there is somewhere suitable for them to attend.

Exactly, OR redefine the educational system to make it work for all students. I am not 100% sure, but talking with the parents of kids that go to Waldorf type schools or Montessori type schools, there doesn't seem to be the same problem. The problem stems from forcing kids to be unnatural and accommodate a flawed system rather than designing a system that works with the natural stages of child and community development. This is threatening to creating a docile and subservient workforce.