My 15 year old cousin wears a diaper and doesn’t know his ABCs, but he is required by law to attend school and pretend like it matters. He is not violent so a mental hospital would not be required for society’s protection - but it sure is silly to put him in a regular public school with his so-called peers.
There are violent children (through no fault of their own) whose parents lovingly adopted them only to discover their child has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Most such parents cannot afford one of the few private schools available to such children so the public schools become the depository until prison takes over the job.
We need to change the model from warehouses of drugged up and abused patients to something more humane but also safer than our current disaster of a system. One place to start is by not insisting everyone must have a K-12 education.
how horrible....