COPAA, the Council of Parents, Attorneys and Advocates, released a statement after the Parkland shootings urging us not to use yet another school shooting tragedy as an impetus to marginalize students with emotional issues and mental illness but to remind us that school districts need to address these students’ issues. School districts are mandated under the IDEA to both identify and provide services to students with mental health issues under the classification of Emotional Disturbance. These students need help; they don’t need to be pushed out or excluded from school due to their occasionally very problematic behavioral issues.
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