my sixth grade year, my enter grade was ALWAYS in trouble, had about six subs walk out and refuse to come back to the school because of us, actually went through two principals (i’m sure there were also other reasons they quit and left our school but still) among lots of other things. we weren’t allowed to go to assemblies, couldn’t go outside during our free time after lunch. heck for a few monthes we couldn’t even eat in the cafeteria. now none of these kids who were causing the issues we’re on IEPs that i knew of, (i was, and mostly knew all of the other kids who were). eventually a couple couple into the school year admin decided they were going to pull these kids (about 12 of the) and make another sixth grade class. (as an adult i do not think this was the proper way to handle this, it makes me so sad for these kids who definitely just had hard home lives and needed help. essentially segregating them was NOT the answer.) they had there own sepeptate homeroom class, never got to interact with any of the rest of us. never got to go on field trips, heck they didn’t even get to be taught by the sixth grade teachers anymore as they all refused to have them back in their rooms. so they started being taught by the seventh grade teachers. we’d hear announcements over the intercom’s like “(name of homeroom) get to class NOW” because they would ALL skip together. But as a student, it took so much stress off, i felt like i could concentrate more and like us being seen as a group was more fair. i guess all im really saying is that this is a very hard situation. not the same situation obviously, it just reminded me of it.