Vanguard Preparatory School in North Dallas was founded six years ago with 16 students and has grown to 105 in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, said director Rosalind Funderburgh. Students have a range of mood, attention and anxiety disorders, she said. Besides teaching core academic subjects, the school emphasizes social skills and ways to manage anger and frustration. For whatever reasons, a number of children don't really learn social skills . . . and how to manage emotions appropriately, even though both parents and siblings do. But it's never OK to hurt people or to be disrespectful or aggressive.
Parents sometimes become so desperate that they surrender custody of their kids.
The girl was sent to a residential treatment center and later to a foster home. But I can't express to you how much of a failure I feel I am today. Basically, my daughter is torturing us all the time. I am suicidal. . . . I have nothing to live for. . . .