These children were tended to by a team of mental health professionals, special ed teachers, assistants and anger management people whose jobs were specifically to de escalate, discuss issues, work with the families of these children and to bring them back to a place that they could function in society. Some of them were very disturbed and violent. Their ages ranged from 4years old to 21 and some of them were there until they aged out.

I was an MSW and my job was to work with these individuals on a one on one basis and with their families.

There was a a point where you would need to decide if they were serious about their violence and usually, they were. The next step was to determine if they could put it all together and actually plan an act of violence that could potentially, harm, maim or even kill someone. Many of them were not able to follow through with their threats to harm because they could not focus long enough to commit the act. Others didn't need that focus because their anger was constantly there and could lash out with anything handy. Some could be reasoned with. Some just used threats to scare their fellow students and never really followed through except with flailing around and yelling strong words and threats.

For all of these "children" there were consequences for their behavior. No they weren't put in a dark box for days without food... they had to answer to their teachers, understand that the things that they did were harmful to others , sometimes they had to go home in a Police Car, which back then was rare and not be allowed back to school until their suspension was over. I was never sure why that was a punishment.

Where I am going here is that looking out at the horizon, since HCR seems to be a fact, there is a group of people, adults, with full permission to act out their violence, drop all the social niceties, name call, spit on, and basically behave in a way that is anti social with the blessings of certain news agencies, political parties, and individuals that stand for this kind of behavior, in fact, rabble rouse them.

Since the bill was passed in Congress, I can't help but notice that there are dangerous, angry people with leaders who help them to finish the acts of aggression against innocent bystanders and many of these individuals need only be armed with misinformation and a placard to get started.

Back at the Day Treatment Program, there would have been consequences.