Difficult children require tremendous amounts of care.
Guileless, shadowless, happy", and there are "difficult children like Cressida.
In short, they are much more difficult children to place successfully.
Only the most damaged and difficult children wind up in residential treatment.
Difficult children can be the most vulnerable: the sickly, the precocious, the retarded, the rebellious.
Keeping difficult children on the roll undeniably affects a school's pass rate, however.
The woman my father married had very little interest in acquiring two large and difficult children.
He was great at inspiring people, his son recalled, and particularly good with difficult children, pupils considerered impossible to educate.
"Families who have difficult children deliberately choose Michaela because they know we will transform them," Birbalsingh said.
Others have been using their greater power to exclude pupils as a way of clearing out difficult children.
As supervisor she could have had difficult children moved on to another establishment if she wanted, but she never did.
