13th October 2010, 9:38 AM
Legally, the school is required to teach them until they reach age 18. Teachers are also required to teach the student [even when that's impossible] AND do paperwork that PROVES the child has been taught the same knowledge/skills that every other child in the school has been taught. The school also has to hire a full-time nurse or aid to take care of the student.
A school can end up paying $20,000-$30,000 a year to teach a student that will never learn a single thing.
I don't have any kind of statistics I can pull out, but it's something that school are having to deal with more and more. Especially since parents already see school as little more than free daycare as it is.
A school can end up paying $20,000-$30,000 a year to teach a student that will never learn a single thing.
I don't have any kind of statistics I can pull out, but it's something that school are having to deal with more and more. Especially since parents already see school as little more than free daycare as it is.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.