After moving through five Salem schools in five years, Mindy Stubenrauch finally found a classroom that worked for her son.

In the year and a half he’s been at Salem Heights Elementary School, she said he’s made friends and progressed after being placed in the school’s emotional growth center. That is a special education classroom intended for students with serious difficulty regulating their emotions.

“This is the most stable he’s ever been,” she said.

But after about a decade at the south Salem school, the class and its teacher will move in the fall seven miles north to Hallman Elementary School, leaving parents worried about the future of their children’s education.

“We’re taking a child that has had nothing but turmoil, trauma and abuse and we’re going to take all of the things he

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