Under that $875,000 contract, a 26-year-old insurance broker who was a friend of a school board member ran a program for emotionally disturbed students.

Sand Hills Psychoeducational School (for emotionally disturbed students, ages 5-21)

Neither has been linked to the school's use of spanks, pinches, vapor sprays and other "aversives" to control severely disturbed students.

The boy was identified as a seventh grader in a special-education class for emotionally disturbed students at P.S. 141.

How should colleges handle emotionally disturbed students, given their limited budgets and resources?

Meanwhile, truly disturbed students maneuvered their way through the system.

I have known other disturbed students who call and are talking, talking, talking.

Mrs. Zale said that the boy was a known troublemaker and that most teachers believed he belonged in a class for emotionally disturbed students.

She then returned to work, teaching English, acting as a reading specialist, and teaching history to emotionally disturbed students.

What are colleges to do with mentally disturbed students, given limited budgets and resources?