“Oppositional Defiance Disorder” is a diagnosis that can get a student an IEP.
So a disruptive, violent child can show up to school every day - throw chairs, bring drugs to school - then get mom or dad to take them to the doc to diagnose them with ODD. It’s a manifestation of their disability.
“Inclusion” also means that these children need to be placed in the same classroom as all the other children. So 29 children are subject to the violence of 1.
Which seems like a problem with the the district rather than the process. A few years back our district had a major funding levy taken away by the voters, my suspicion being that it was at least in part due to having a fairly large church based school in the area that some wanted to pay for instead. That schools and teachers are criminally underserved is no secret, but it’s not a reason to be upset with the challenging student and the programs around them.
Source: a former spec-ed student of the 80s/90s now trying to navigate being a single dad to a chaotic kid while small town society sits back and judges