Z,
So what makes a school less "egalitarian" to your liking, other than having such classes?
Not letting disruptive kids prevent the rest of the kids from learning. Often, these disruptive kids hold the whole class hostage, and little or no learning takes place.
You may have 2 or 3 kids like that in good districts, or you may have 10 or more kids like that in problem districts.
So who ends up being sacrificed is education of good kids. They are either not removed, or if they are removed, inordinate amount of resources are spent on these disruptive kids at expense of the rest of the kids.
You may have a budget of, say $10,000 per child, but you may end up with $5,000 for good kids and $30,000 for bad kids.
The solution is never to sacrifice normal kids. If there is a sacrifice that has to be made (because funds are scarse), it is the disruptive child that should be shortchanged.
In a world where money grows on trees, go ahead, spend $30,000 on a problem student, if you are not going to shortchanged normal student. However, it is never the case that this level of resources would be available.
Joe |
