re: It's way past time to overhaul our education system

Yeah any of our ECE is that way and if you are in the unfortunate circumstance where a previous school wrote a shitshow IEP (we get this a lot being in a pretty transient area) then they can barely be suspended for anything that was listed as their "disability".

I think you can go even further in debating changes to the special education portion of the school systems (which is pretty well a national standard) and how badly hands are tied in the school system when it comes to kids who end up labeled EBD. There is a definite issue with determining what is truly their disability and what isn't. And why they should only be suspended 10 days if their behavior is that defiant.