You know, I think it's really the same problem as the GT issue in some ways: "I'm sorry. We can't do any sort of individualized discipline. That would be too hard/expensive/unfair/much work. Instead we'll do this other thing that doesn't work well at all, but that fits within our narrow definition of what discipline should look like and that we can adminster en masse."
Substitute "education" for discipline, and it starts to sound really familiar, doesn't it?
Too true! It is the same issue. It seems to be our district's motto--no special considerations for anybody. In fact, an upper level administrator once told me that, "This is public education. Everyone gets a Chevy and your child doesn't have a right to a Cadillac." Was she talking about GT ed? Nope. She was talking about a health plan to prevent anaphylaxis. My husband wanted to tell her that all he wanted was seatbelts in the Yugo...
