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Most kids labeled as having an “emotional disability” and shunted into public special education schools are Black or Latino, and low income while wealthier families more often access a taxpayer-funded free private education.
The best student at Sunset Park’s Lillian Rashkis High School reads at what his mom estimates is a fifth-grade level and still doesn’t know his multiplication tables.
Violet is one of more than 1,600 students taken away from school in an ambulance during an emotional crisis and brought to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation between July, 2021 and March 30 of this year, according to an analysis of NYPD data by Advocates for Children.