<p>"No, an educational consultant would take those unknowns into account when recommending the school. There are plenty of 'therapeutic' boarding schools."</p>
<p>Cheers, are you one of these consultants, or are you just going by what they recommended in a situation you're familiar with? I find it hard to believe that any kind of education professionals would see it as their role to just steer people with explosive tempers to boarding schools as a one-size fits all solution, without first ruling out a physical problem or mental problem that contributes to the behavior. </p>
<p>It would be irresponsible not only to the child, but also to the other children in the school, to take the risk of placing, say, an unmedicated schizophrenic or a person whose erratic behavior is due to an undiagnosed metabolic issue or temporal lobe epilepsy. Professional ethics aside, the liability issues would be staggering. </p>
<p>Anyone who tells you they have a treatment plan for your child, but hasn't bothered to assess your child, I would be very leery of. I've never heard of a doctor's office sending around someone to pass out medication in the waiting room before taking your vital signs and asking you your symptoms, much less prescribing the same type of medication to each person.</p>
<p>I am sure you have the best of intentions, and you may well be right about the drug use, but I hope you're wrong about how these consultants operate.</p>