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Ma'am;...I support the Supreme Court in this one, even though it may well serve the right better than anyone else... My child has ADD...I am not certain I don't have it... She is dead average, with extremes of highs and lows; again, like myself... And we did not have to look hard for a diagnosis... It was obvious when she really began to struggle with school... Now; we had a plan, but to get the school system in Holt, Michigan to agree to help her and follow through was like pulling teeth on an elephant... I was ready to give up...I was telling them to forget her education, and try to give her a positive social experience... She could not stand her ground verbally against the black kids who abused her because they knew she was slow, and sensitive about it... And she was getting an ugly attitude about black people...She stressed out over going to school, and I guess they hated trying to educate her...Then one day she was talking to some black kid who cursed her as she walked by, and one of her friends dropped a knife in her lap...It was big, shiney and beautiful... She opened it up, but having never seen it before, could not close it... She put it down, and tried to get away from it, but it was seen, and she was expelled... They were happy to get rid of her, and her needs... They would not support her while she was there...In all likelyhood, they could not afford to monitor the halls, the bumps, the pushes, and the verbal abuse...They could barely afford to teach, and could not control their students... In some respects, they have my sympathy...But my child has more of my sympathy, and I save some for my wife and self...Now we pay the big bucks for a few private classes, and mostly home school her...But we, and she, deserve better... She did not once have a bad conduct report on her report card... She was always very concerned to behave as expected... She did not bring a knife to school, nor hide it later...She simply cannot think fast in strange situation....And while I know this does not prepare her well for life, she still deserves the education that I have been paying for all my adult life... I think it would be cool if kids did not ever need any extra help to keep up...I think it would be cool if those with the money would support the education this whole society needs to survive into the future...As much as I understand that the school boards want to cherry pick their students to get the best athletes, or the least social problems, this is not always fair...Now, she is getting an education... She is learning you can't count of the law for justice, and you cannot count on those people, like school boards, and teachers, and administrators to do any more than the absolute minimim...If you leave it to them they will take the money, and cut loose the kids to be as useless as themselves... Well, I think my kid has a lot of potential... She is a good kid, and a whole lot less dangerous than I was at her age...She can learn if anyone will trouble to teach her, and in some respects she has a fine mind, and a fine memory... She could be a credit to the school district, and instead she is an insult, because she is being better educated at home...And what will I do the next time the school board asks me to tax myself to pay for some other child's education??? What should I do??? What would you do???. I already give them too much for the nothing I recieve, and knowing that they pay insurance for legal fees so they can avoid doing justice to my child while I go broke seeking justice for her makes me want all the more to help them less...This child should be educted the same as any other child, but so long as the school board can deny her expense, and her rights, she will be denied her rights... And that is their bottom line...If they could take from all, and deny to all they would do that as well... My kid cooperated in giving them an excuse.. ...And something else...You seem to presume that the child you site as engaged in cannabis abuse acted as a matter of free choice...Life can be very, very frustrating for a child struggling with social interaction and education..Very often such children also battle depression, and consider suicide... Were it your child, sick from some cause beyond your understanding, would you rather have them alive, and self medicating as they feel helps, or dead of a suicide??? Cool heads like yours often attend executions; but is that really what you want??? I mean, there are plenty of kids taking anti depressants who murder themselves, but this is not true of cannabis abusers...They may not make it to president of the U.S; but there is no reason to believe that such children, if they live, cannot one day resolve their issues sufficiently to have a decent and happy life... We want no less for our children than you do for yours.....Thanks...Sweeney...