
What to do with angry, unstable students
Photo: Pixabay In A day in the life of school social workers, Hechinger’s Peggy Barmore looks at how Schenectady (New York) schools diverts troubled students from the classroom and tries to get them back into class. In 2021, the upstate New York district “started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems,” Barmore writes. (Nathaniel) Wylie, who has trained in therapeutic crisis intervention, n