Who's a naughty boy then?

A five-year-old boy has been expelled from a local primary school for persistent bad behaviour.  His mother says he has "not been given enough support" by the school. There was a time when problem children were sent to special schools which had the resources to deal with them, but the thinking today - and for a good few years past - is that they should be put in with the other children at their local school.  It is possible to see both sides of the argument, but what seems to get overlooked in all the discussion of what is best for them, is what is best for all the other children. A naughty child can disrupt the class and make it difficult for the other children to learn and do their work.  Who was it who said that you should do whatever produced "the greatest good for the greatest number" (Bentham I think) and that's what I think the Head of this school is seeking to achieve by excluding him.  Of course he's a product of our time, isn't he?  See my post of 25.9 08.