of Students with Behavioral Disorders.
Teaching students with behavioral disorders has to be one of the most difficult.
professions there is. There is nothing more formidable than an antagonist and hostile .
human spirit. Students with behavioral disorders are the bane of parents, teachers, and.
school principals. Society does not want to see and hear about these students, but they are.
becoming legion. We cannot ignore them. Oh, we can try for a few years to hide them .
from view, but when they grow up into antagonistic, anti-social adults, they will not let us .
ignore them. They will stand in our faces with guns or knives. They will steal our .
possessions, rape our children, destroy our peace of mind. We can ignore them and say.
they are someone else's problem, but there will come a day when they will be our .
problem. With this in mind, I have done a brief, inept review of who the BD student is .
and what we have done for them, as well as, what do we need to do in the future with the .
help of dedicated educational researchers and educators in the field. With their help, we.
may be able to change hostile students into happy, productive members of our.
Great Society.
Of all the difficulties with which a teacher must cope, I think students with .
behavior disorders must tax teachers' energies to the limit. A teacher can accommodate a .
child with impaired vision or hearing loss. A teacher can learn how to accommodate a .
child with epilepsy, but a child with BD? One oftens hears among Education students .
expresions like " the special needs students who worry me the most are the ones with .
behavioral disorders."" From my readings on this disorder, I get the impression that .
these feelings are shared by many teachers and principals, beginning and seasoned. .
Although few would deny these children the right to an education, many will take the stand that we cannot sacrifice the ninety-nine for the lost one. That one student with.
