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Katherine Reynolds Lewis

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Educated At: Harvard University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Journalist, Writer, Enemy Of The State

Total quotes: 1

“The children at risk of falling into the school-to-prison pipeline, Greene says, include not only the 5.2 million with ADHD, the 5 million with a learning disability, and the 2.2 million with anxiety disorders, but also the 16 million who have experienced repeated trauma or abuse, the 1.4 million with depression, the 1.2 million on the autism spectrum, and the 1.2 million who are homeless. 'Behaviorally challenging kids are still poorly understood and are still being treated in ways that are adversarial, reactive, punitive, unilateral, ineffective, counterproductive,' he told the audience. 'Not only are we not helping, we are going about doing things in ways that make things worse. Then what you have to show for it is a whole lot of alienated, hopeless, sometimes aggressive, sometimes violent kids.'”

— Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Everything you think you know about disciplining kids is wrong

Tagged: Discipline

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