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Imagine this. You’re the parent or teacher of a child with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. You know the child’s behavior falls outside the norm (maybe it's even scary or dangerous) and that he’s not getting the help he needs. But you don’t quite understand what’s going on with the child or how you can help. You do know that the child is having a...
Over three years ago, a 16-year old tenth grader named John Odgren stabbed to death a student – his name was James Alenson – in a high school bathroom in a Boston suburb. A few months ago, I testified as an expert witness in John’s murder trial. My role was to try to explain how John came to do what he did one tragic day in January, 2007.
Like many kids in our schools, John had a long...
Massachusetts is in the national news again, this time not because of our new U.S. Senator but rather because of the more sobering topic of bullying. This is due, in large part, to the tragic recent deaths of 15-year old Phoebe Prince and 11-year old Carl Walker-Hoover, two kids who were apparently on the receiving end of bullying from other kids at school and ended up taking their own lives...
As noted in a recent column in TIME magazine, a new year means a chance to put to rest some of the tired words and phrases that became popularized during the previous year. In its annual rendition of the List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use, and General Uselessness (CLICK HERE),...
The Tiger Woods saga appears, finally, to have moved off the front pages. Because Tiger, like most professional athletes, is in the entertainment business, I guess a lot of folks found his marital indiscretions to be as compelling as his golf game. Of course, the most tragic aspect of the situation -- the part typically given short shrift in situations like this (think John and Kate) -- is the...
In findings recently reported by Public Agenda (www.publicagenda.org), 40 percent of K-12 classroom teachers in the U.S. were characterized as “disheartened.” These teachers voiced high levels of frustration about disorder in the classroom (nearly 75 percent cited discipline and behavior problems as major issues), felt there was an undue focus on...
My original plan for this first The Real World installment was to complain. I know our new President here in the U.S. hasn’t been in office for very long, and I also understand that he’s operating under very difficult circumstances and has some very big fish to fry: the economy, health care reform, finance reform, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan...the list is long, and I don’t envy the man, though...
"We need to start thinking outside the box."
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