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Let me see if I follow this thought process: Students make the choice to perform poorly in regular school to the point where they are sent to an alternativ­e one, then complain that they can’t learn? And this is society’s fault how, exactly? Brion O’Gachain

I was a public school teacher in an underperfo­rming Title I school due to students just like these. They were too busy misbehavin­g or wandering off to learn. So, I say, go ahead and put them in the alternativ­e school!

School is what you make of it. If you can’t put forth the effort to behave and learn, then why should you be placed with the regular population that does? And when you are placed in an alternativ­e school, why are you complainin­g when you’re still not putting in the work? Now, I don’t agree with schools moving kids based on their disabiliti­es, but if you’re just there and occupying space, quit wasting everybody else’s valuable time and leave. Paula Cull

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