<p>Our little district has a few students who’ve been “out-placed.” It can be very expensive, but an in-district child who’s out of control is also expensive to the district. Administrators’ time is very expensive. Once you add up the time devoted to such students by the assistant principals, principals, and school psychologists, in addition to the teacher time needed for “team meetings,” and aides-cum-watchers, the sum can rival the cost of the outplacement. That doesn’t even consider the value of the learning time the other students lose, nor the cost of the legal proceedings. </p>
<p>The two students I know who’ve been out-placed are reportedly doing better, but not as well as the boy described in the article.</p>