decades ago, we had NO NAMES for anything and kids got along and graduated....we knew some kids were different and it was just accepted as them being them....no stigma...no special classes...
I wouldn’t say that. A lot of kids were just lumped into the “troubled” category, which comes with a lot of stigma, leads to drop outs, and then they’re outside society. If you look back at hose days and all those “groups” of people that weren’t really a part of society, hobos, temporary hands, outlaw bikers. There’s a whole lot of people that just fell through the cracks, starting when they were kids.