It's funny you would put it that way. "Babysitting" is what many homeschoolers call the entire public school system - "a glorified babysitting service". But we're talking about the classes with the healthy kids.
I've seen a number of parents who try to get their children placed in special ed. as ADHD, for instance, rather than just making them behave and do their work.
My experience has been just the opposite - I know a lot of parents who were pressured into the ADHD diagnosis and medication by school teachers and administrators with the threat that, if their kids weren't medicated, they'd be placed in special ed. Most of the parents I know removed their children and either started homeschooling or put them in Catholic school.
One major reason why I won't put my sons in school is the tendency for the schools in our area to diagnose ADHD and push medication.
I have heard that from other people as well. I'm a teacher, but we're not allowed to even suggest that a child might have ADHD, because that's a medical opinion/diagnosis we aren't qualified to make.