Throwing kids out of schools is akin to a death sentence; the Yiddishkeit and even health of such kids is threatened. Drugs and other horrible things are rampant among the real OTD crowd. Just look at a place like Our Place, which says that they’ve gotten heterim to have open caskets at levayas of kids who overdosed, r”l.
There needs to be more opportunities for people to make a parnassa, get a decent education, and also there needs to be more diversity in the type of learning we offer.