"The short time you spend on those five bad apples you take away from the fifteen you could actually be doing well."
Burdette Pombier has a child in Eaton Rapids schools and he's fine with teachers being able to remove problem students from his daughter's classroom.
But a state law that took effect this school year makes it harder for schools to put those kids in seclusion.
It's a move the head of the Ingham intermediate school district agrees with.
"They don't have the opportunity to learn. Now you have to balance that with if a child is having a difficult time controlling themselves they may have to be removed from the classroom."
Removing a student from the classroom could mean using physical force.
This does not sit well with Sierra Miller
"I don't agree with that period, I mean if its that bad you need to call a parent, or get some other personnel."
Parents may not like it, but staff find it necessary,as a last resort.
"Completely emergency situations where you've tried everything else and your'e down to protecting the welfare of both that safety of the student, as well as the other students in the classroom."
Administrators say the best thing they can do is head off problems before they erupt in the classroom , and that comes from understanding.
"If a student is acting out, they are trying to communicate something as adults and its our job to figure out what that something is."
