Reply #170: You're right

[midlife_mo_Jo]

Having several children, I have had children in gifted programs in school all the way to special education services for serious disabilities.

One of my children was in class with a child with an emotional disability who was extremely disruptive, IMO, but his parents threatened lawsuits for years because they wanted him mainstreamed. After sending another child to the hopsital with serious injuries, he was finally removed from mainstream classrooms, but the children and teachers had to endure frequent outbursts over the years that interfered with their right to an education. He was actually quite a lovely child in many ways, but by the time he was forced out of a mainstream classroom, the children intensely disliked him.

The good news is that we caught up with him years later in another school, and he was doing much, much better, but I think his parents finally realized they had to get medical and some kind of psychological help for him from the things he told us.