The Child Who Walks Alone by Anne Stilwell PAPERBACK 9780292741874

The Child Who Walks AloneCase Studies of Rejection in the Schools\nAuthor(s): Anne Stilwell, Hart Stilwell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292741874, 978-0292741874\nSynopsis\nThere is an old song that goes, \""Look down, look down, that lonesome road, before you travel on.\"" Facing that lonesome road, the adult might travel on. Often, the child can't. \n\n During her twenty-year career as a school social worker, Anne Stilwell worked with two thousand \""problem\"" children. She and her husband, professional writer Hart Stilwell, present here twenty-one factual accounts of children who suffered rejection in the public schools. \n\n Some of the children in these accounts are unusually bright and some are mentally retarded. They are belligerent and destructive or withdrawn. They are from broken homes or happy homes, from the slums or Middle America. They are blacks, Chicanos, and Anglos. There is onl.