A reduction in the number of classroom assistants would require teachers to adopt more traditional, front-of-class teaching methods that are the norm in most successful education systems around the world.
Overloading our schools with teaching assistants, not uncommonly with two in a single class, is less effective than whole class teaching methods.
For most of us, the best interests of the overwhelming majority takes precedence over what may erroneously be construed as in the best interest of a few disruptive individuals.
A start can be made by cutting back the forthcoming Easter break and by shortening the summer term holidays.
Historical reality is that there is no colour-bar on human wickedness and suffering, just as there is no colour-bar on human achievement.
There has even been opposition to providing on-line lessons. The closure of schools is further fracturing our already divided society.