Where I live the superintendent and local groups formed a task-force style intervention and looped in local volunteers. The scale of the problem is most visibl

Where I live the superintendent and local groups formed a task-force style intervention and looped in local volunteers. The scale of the problem is most visible through 'special ed' allocation. Once a program for kids with learning challenges, it now also encompasses what are essentially behavioral problems. Kids don't get kicked out of school for throwing raging tantrums or hitting teachers - they get placed into programs designed to keep them in school. (If that's what life is like at school, imagine what life is like at home.)