If you’re a teacher with a pupil you’d like to get rid of, one of the ways you can do it is try to get him transferred to Special Ed. The school psychologist will support you because detecting more and more learning disabilities helps justify her job. The principal will support you since classifying your problem pupil as learning disabled exempts him from the standardized testing by which the state evaluates his school. The parents will support you since it means the school district is about to spend twice as much on this pupil as on his classmates. Even the pupil will appreciate it since the penalties for misconduct are lighter for Special Ed students than others. Eventually he will get a diploma he can’t read but his eventual problem is not your immediate problem of getting rid of a pupil who’d much rather disrupt your class than learn anything.
