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If the fact that I point out that the school system has ,for many years, manipulated the definition of "disabled" to mean children who don't like school or who are bored by their teachers- in order to get extra funding from the states- means that I am "void of compassion" then you have a very interesting definition of compassion. I have seen those exact children forced to be on life altering drugs because of parent's issues and because the school doesn't want to deal with high energy children AND they make money off of them. I have spent my work life working with people with varying issues. DO you think it is more compassionate to bleed the tax payer and manipulate children and parents into believing something that isn't true??? If standing up for parents and children is what you consider void of compassion then I don't think the two of us see eye to eye on much at all.

Of course there are a small percentage of children who have ADD or ADHD. Some of them may have CAPS- some of them may be explosive children ( i have one of those) some of them may be (and I believe are ) gifted. some of them may be being poisoned by metal levels which cause them illness. Some of it may be food allergies.... There are plenty of other reason children have difficulty on school.

Does the prospect of getting more money--a “bounty”--for each extra special education student persuade some educators to identify more children as disabled? Apparently so, according to a new study from the Manhattan Institute, which finds states with “bounty” systems for special education have significantly higher growth rates for special education enrollment than states with no such incentives