Discrimination- treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination. Our teachers  and school are too, eager to discriminate againt or put a brand on a child,ODD or ADHD. The more kids with problems the teacher gets an aide for the class room. I believe, that as the child is the one with the diagnosis, the aide should be for the child but alas as our system works, the teacher gets a helper because of the child. I know this to be true as i have been fighting the education department for the past 7 years.The first instance was in kindergarten when, after telling Dan teacher Mrs Giles about Dans life briefly she immediately decided Dan would be trouble and  she looked for every little thing that he did and reported him. Dan was sat at a table alone in front of the class.He was made fun of because of this by the children and soon a bright child became dumb and stupid as the kids kept calling him.    Dont sit back and let your child be bullied by teachers. When a teacher singles out a child, the other children in the class will follow her lead and tease and torment the child who has no one to turn to. Did you know there is a sight where schools can put comments about bad kids and its no accessable to parents? Should you decided to send your child to a private school they will definately look this list up. No hope for children once they have been branded as a bad child and put on this list. My grandson was put on such a list by Sule College Shellharbour as when the only aussie child in a turkish school was allowed to have dirt thrown in his face by other students, drink bottles tossed over the fence daily, or being dragged along the ground daily, an aide was supplied by docs 9 am - 3 pm, 5 days a week, to assist Dan and at the end of term 3 Dan could not write his name and no one listening to what he as saying. Dan complained that his aide didn't help him and I also protested  to DoCS who paid this aide, no -one would listen, so one day he took his blazer off and peed on it, to show his disgust at what was happening to him. For this the principal Mr Turzey wrote Dan left an imprint on every child in the school.