Emphasis is placed on the discipline of emotionally disturbed and behaviorally disordered students.
Osborne discusses expulsions and how they affect placement. He then looks at alternatives to expulsion, including serial suspensions, short-term suspensions, transfers, modified schedules, corporal punishment, and detentions. Other issues, such as the treatment of students not yet identified as disabled, the treatment of former special education students, individualized discipline programs, and criminal acts by students, also are analyzed. Seven appendices contain sample statements, forms, and letters that immediately can be put to use. There is a Specific Incident Report for documenting serious acts of misconduct and a Record of Disciplinary Action for logging all acts of misconduct and the school response.