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human
I believe that rather than spending money on programs for the severly mentally disabled, schools should put money into programs that can help develop those who will eventually contribute to society. Please CMV

I go to a high school in the U.S that has an extensive program for those with severe mental disabilities. I'd say there are at least three seperate classrooms and about 20 people who are employed to take care of them. I think that this is a waste of money that could be used on extracurricular programs to help develop students who will eventually contribute somthing to society. Also, when I saw mentally disabled I mean students with disabilities that cause them to lack any conceivable form of communication or intelligence that allows them to contribute anything. I'm not really sure how to phrase that, but I'm thinking of anyone who falls into the very low IQ range (70-) or is completely unable to express intelligent thoughts that they may or or may not have. I do, however, understand that people with minor learning disabilities (ASD, aspergers, etc.) are not only able to contribute to society, but are sometimes incredibly intelligent.
gpt
The goal of those programs is to help those with significant mental impairments function properly, so that they can also be constructive to society. Essentially, it's to help them get to that level of functionality that you describe those with less significant disabilities as having, and you suggest you don't have much of a problem with them. 

Plus, *not* having these programs would be *worse* for society.

If the mentally impaired children you mention were placed in classrooms, the ability of the class to function would be compromised, due to the amount of monitoring required for the lower-functioning students. This would mess up the ability for *all* students to contribute to society, which it seems you favor. And if they simply stay at home? Then an enormous economic burden is placed on the family who must have to monitor and support such youth - possibly forever, seeing as they might not have the knowledge or skill to help mentally disabled children function well. Economic stress and possible unemployment, for families who only wish to help their mentally disabled children.