{"id":499,"date":"2005-09-04T10:34:02","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/09\/04\/a-case-for-the-brat-disposal-squad\/"},"modified":"2005-09-04T10:34:02","modified_gmt":"2005-09-04T14:34:02","slug":"a-case-for-the-brat-disposal-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/04\/a-case-for-the-brat-disposal-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case for the Brat Disposal Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6892'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/clownslovechildren.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\"><em>The<br \/>\n        Boston Globe today has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2005\/09\/04\/child_behavioral_problems_hard_lesson_for_pre_k_parents\/?page=2\">an<br \/>\n        interesting article<\/a> on what do do with chronically<br \/>\n        misbehaving pre-schoolers. Appearantly, it is a problem that is getting<br \/>\n        out of hand, and creative solutions are required.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">All too often, some<br \/>\n          say, teachers with limited training and mounting concerns<br \/>\n          about liability look for ways &#8212; some more subtle<br \/>\n          than others &#8212; to get problem children to go away and not return.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Lisa Mathey of Ashburn, Va., understands those frustrations.<br \/>\n        Her 3-year-old daughter, who has attention deficit and oppositional defiant<br \/>\n        disorders, had to leave one program after a few months and soon after<br \/>\n        raised liability concerns at a second one. Her erratic behavior included<br \/>\n        removing all her clothes and climbing to high spots where she could not<br \/>\n      be reached. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Oppositional defiant disorder? Sounds like a case for<br \/>\n        the Brat Disposal Squad, operated in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/07\">Brat<br \/>\n        Eating Contest of Wisconsin<\/a>, Inc&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2005\/09\/04\/child_behavioral_problems_hard_lesson_for_pre_k_parents\/\"> The<br \/>\n          Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe today has an interesting article on what do do with chronically misbehaving pre-schoolers. Appearantly, it is a problem that is getting out of hand, and creative solutions are required. All too often, some say, teachers with limited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/04\/a-case-for-the-brat-disposal-squad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}