Summary: <a class="alignleft" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966526686/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0966526686&linkCode=as2&tag=mrdacom-20&linkId=b2803d587b9d85d126f8932c5a7a1373"></a>Gary Mayerson, author of How To Compromise With Your School District Without Compromising Your Child.<br> Topic: Combatting bullying and how to get effective services for children with autism or developmental disabilities.<br> 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.<br> <br> Caitlin Flanagan, author of an article in the Atlantic magazine, “<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/how-helicopter-parents-cause-binge-drinking/492722/">How Helicopter Parents Cause Binge Drinking</a>.”<br> Topic: Why the way some white professionals raise their children is exacerbating an alcohol problem on some U.S. college campuses.<br> 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.<br> <br>
