Where the bad sad kids go (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781532827150)

Dr Alison Sutherland trained as a secondary school teacher and was the school principal of a New Zealand Youth 'prison'. After this school closed she was employed by New Zealand's Ministry of Education's 'Severe Behavior Team' to support teachers facing students with challenging behaviors. Alison later completed a PhD 'Classroom to prison cell: young offenders perception of their school experience'. In keeping with her promise to the young people she interviewed, Alison wrote her first book 'Classroom to prison cell', the Foreword written by Andrew Becroft, New Zealand's Principal Youth Court Judge. Never forgetting her experience as teaching principal at the Youth Justice facility, in this book Alison has shared the stories of how the school functioned and anecdotes of the 'sometimes bad, mostly sad' young people she taught. Alison's other passion is New Zealand's critically endangered Arapawa goat. She wrote and published a children's illustrated book titled 'Old Will, the first Arapawa goat' and is currently writing a non-fiction book 'Captain Cook's Goats? The facts and myths that surround New Zealand's Arapawa Goats'.