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'Psychoeducational' school's behavioral experiment targeted Cobb girl

By Alan Judd
May 4, 2016

When Libby Beem was 9 years old, Cobb County educators proposed an experiment to figure out why she had emotional, often violent outbursts in school. The experiment was to be conducted in one of the "psychoeducational" schools that make up the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support.

Below, Libby and her mother discuss the experiment. Read Libby's full story here.

About the Author

Alan Judd is a former investigative reporter for the AJC. He has written about persistently dangerous apartment complexes in metro Atlanta, juvenile justice, child welfare, sexual abuse by physicians, patient deaths in state psychiatric hospitals, and other topics.

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