Combatting Bullying of Special Needs Kids + Excessive Drinking on Campus

Gary Mayerson, author of How To Compromise With Your School District Without Compromising Your Child. Topic: Combatting bullying and how to get effective services for children with autism or developmental disabilities. Issues: Special concerns of kids with special needs; determining the services you need; working with the school district to get what you’re entitled to under the law; why bullies target kids with autism and other developmental disabilities; the importance of encouraging bystanders to confront bullies. Caitlin Flanagan, author of an article in the Atlantic magazine, “How Helicopter Parents Cause Binge Drinking.” Topic: Why the way some white professionals raise their children is exacerbating an alcohol problem on some U.S. college campuses. Issues: The difference between college drinking in the 1970s and today; the difference between “good parents” and “get-real parents”; how top colleges reward intensity and how binge drinking is a perfect form of that quality; why black students drink less than students of any other race.