Alone on the Range: S.D. Psychologist Covers Far-Flung Systems
Kimball, S.D.
An hour before pale-yellow light begins to lap across the fields of winter wheat, Tim Harmon is already whizzing down the highway that cuts through this hinterland to reach his first patient before the school bell rings.
Like a one-man emotional ER, the tireless school psychologist bolts into a classroom and conducts a 15-minute one-on-one counseling session with a student who threatened to hang himself last year. Then, satisfied that the boy is stabilized, he speeds off to his next case, at a school more than 100 miles east.
Mr. Harmon treks 3,000 miles a month, spreading his time among five school systems flung across the vast Dakota plains, conducting IQ tests, unearthing tales of child abuse, and...
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Correction:
This article gave the incorrect name and location of the South Dakota school mentioned in this story. The high school where the principal also doubles as a counselor is in Kimball, S.D.
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