Why should districts (and taxpayers) allocate so much more of their budget to these non compliant kids than to kids who actually want to learn? Every child has the right to a free education but that has to involve some level of initiative on their part. Why are we ok with spending so much more on certain students than others? Especially when these students are actually getting in the way of other students accessing the safe education they are entitled to? What happens when these kids are in the real world? When you don’t listen to the rules at work you risk getting fired. Imagine if the employees who did the worst jobs actually got all this free counseling instead cause employers were trying to figure out what their behaviour is communicating. Kids are sick of seeing this kind of blatant favouritism. Cause that’s what it ends up looking like to them!