In a nearby school district, kids are assaulting other kids and some teachers. Mostly it's the special needs kids, emotionally disturbed/learning disabled. In 21 years, one teacher said, she's never seen anything like it. They're roaming in packs. There is no discipline protocol to follow. The teachers are overwhelmed. In 21 years, there has never been budget cuts like this. It's against the law! Under the Fair Education Act, each child gets what he or she needs to get their best education regardless of the cost. There's only a few years a child is in school, but for the rest of their life they make up our society. How can we stint like this? Fifty mainstream kids per teacher in some classes, no aides anymore for some special ed kids. All the kids will show the strain, but special needs ones show it faster and harder. That's why we single them out. The parents at the school I mentioned are demanding the special ed kids be removed and put in their own school. Yeah, cut the funding so they don't get what they need to succeed in our society, and punish the weak ones already struggling, already unlucky. Don't solve the problem -- remove the victims. First nature attacked them, now budget cuts. Plenty of money for "defense"... offense, it should be called... making money off death and overpowering peoples, it should be called... but not enough for any frail ones in our country. Take it away from the disabled of body or mind, or the just plain old. The ones who CAN'T make it on their own, who need us. Remove the special ed kids from the school, and that means they can't take any mainstream classes or interact socially, with proper guidance, with "normal" peers. That doesn't set them up for succeeding in life after school. That sets them up for a lifetime of institutional care. It's a lot cheaper to house "them" all packed together. It's expensive to give the disabled the help they need to live and work in our society as individuals. Equipment, one-on-one aides, the therapies they need. Did you know that until the '80s, retarded kids were generally stuck into institutions and left there their whole lives? They didn't have the same rights to medical care the rest of us have, because they weren't considered part of "us."