In 5th grade we had one kid in our class that would fuck everything up. I can still remember his full name. Alex was white with vitiligo, husky, and had guy fieri energy. He constantly was spazzing out, couldn't sit in his seat, had outbursts. The teacher had set up a discipline structure she called "the tribe" as in all of us were not individuals, but one tribe. Naturally, that didn't mean if one person in the tribe made great grades we all got a pizza party, but that if one person (always Alex) misbehaved we wouldn't get recess and have to use the time doing "heads down" on our desks (burying our heads in crossed arms for 20 minutes.) Alex could not control himself, so we lost recess often. There was a time where we didn't get recess for two weeks because of Alex. Everyone in the class hated him and he was completely ostracized.
I told this story to my middle school nephew and he said they still do the same thing and one person fucks it up every time for every one.
The messaging public school enforces is contemptible. Even though he wasn't retarded, Alex should have been pulled out of class, sent to be with the SPEDs until he got his act together. If he couldn't get his act together, forever SPED it is. The funny thing is he is just a normal guy with a wife now, I looked him up since hatred etched his full name in my memory. The education system does not work for many young boys, but that's another story.