Except, it's not our call. Federal law specifies that students with special needs as identified under IDEA must be educated to the fullest extent possible with their non-disabled peers. Has nothing to do with the Right or the Left. The laws have been in place since the early '70s. Back in the 1950s there were separate schools for kids with disabilities and the results for those kids were pretty bad. The only exception that is made is state schools for the Deaf and Blind. Nationwide, those are vanishing as a result of integrating these kids into the regular schools. Students with behavioral issues are sometimes identified under IDEA (Education Law) or Section 504 (Civil Rights Law) and are subject to individual plans and services to address these issues. (It is not always successful.) Student behavior is dealt with in accordance to the provisions of Hawaii Administrative Rules (HAR) Ch. 19. (all students come under the Ch. 19 rules for student discipline.)