ABSTRACT
What’s the best way to handle adolescent students with moderate to severe behavioral problems? Students who consistently disrupt normal classrooms are a thorn to any teacher. Their disruptive behavior is a manifestation, a consequence of multiple causes, mostly attributable to poor home or community life. The causes may include a negligent home environment, a learning disability, poor reading skills, a disrespect or disregard for authority (or self), and so on. In the rural northeastern community in which I developed the program in this chapter, we found that students with the most nagging behavior problems came from one parent families where there was little respect for the value of education, and where the discipline of the child was either nonexistent or excessively cruel.
