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 LP> Was very surprised to catch this in last night's Phx Gazette:
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 LP> Dear Ann,
 LP> Our 12 year-old son fit the behavioral pattern of the lad in your
 LP> column.  We, too, had smashed furniture and multiple suspensions from
 LP> school.  "Don" had a near genius IQ but did poorly in school, which
 LP> posed a mystery.  One of his teachers said, "This is not a behavioral
 LP> problem.  Your son is mentally ill."  We took him for a psychiatric
 LP> evaluation, and, of course, she was right.  That was the day the
 LP> healing began.  We will be forever grateful to the teacher.
 LP> Somewhere in the Mid-West.
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 LP> I don't know about the rest of the teachers in this echo, but if the
 LP> above described teacher had been in my district, the parents at the
 LP> best probably would have ignored her advice & at the worst, would have
 LP> complained about her to her principal.  I suppose some parents might
 LP> have sued.
 LP> Leona Payne
 You are right.  I am not a teacher, but here in MI the parents would 
complain.
 Although I have to give this teacher credit for opening his/her mouth.
 The teachers main job in my opinion is to help students learn.  This is
 one of the reasons they take courses in psych.
 Regina
... "Don't mince words, Leona ... what do you *REALLY* think?"
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