Submitted by K. Fisher (not verified) on April 16, 2008 - 17:29.
I am a former director of a small,alternative high school that was discontinued due to budgetary problems. When I first started in the position I created a survey to find out how the students viewed the program. One of the questions was, "What do you most like about this school?" To my initial surprise (later it made perfect sense) the great majority of the students replied that they liked it because they didn't have to go into the halls to pass from class to class.
These are the students that don't fit. These are the students that need structure. These are the students that need the security and safety of a program where they can learn at their own rate, without being chastised for not "keeping up".
These are the students that will continue to fail in the traditional high school because the traditional high school is not designed for them. We "educators" don't get it because we were the ones who did succeed in the traditional high school. Its not a matter of giving them a "second chance". Its a matter of giving them a fighting chance.
Will second-chance schools slow the dropout rate?
Submitted by K. Fisher (not verified) on April 16, 2008 - 17:29.
I am a former director of a small,alternative high school that was discontinued due to budgetary problems. When I first started in the position I created a survey to find out how the students viewed the program. One of the questions was, "What do you most like about this school?" To my initial surprise (later it made perfect sense) the great majority of the students replied that they liked it because they didn't have to go into the halls to pass from class to class.
These are the students that don't fit. These are the students that need structure. These are the students that need the security and safety of a program where they can learn at their own rate, without being chastised for not "keeping up".
These are the students that will continue to fail in the traditional high school because the traditional high school is not designed for them. We "educators" don't get it because we were the ones who did succeed in the traditional high school. Its not a matter of giving them a "second chance". Its a matter of giving them a fighting chance.