In our successful alternative school, CHOICE is the heart of the program.
Teachers choose to be there. Students and parents choose to be there. The community chooses to help our students. Our students choose to help the community.
Our school motto: We are the R.H.I.N.O.S.
Real Heroes in New Opportunities Succeeding.
Our students are the real heroes when they choose to help the school and the community. In the process, invisibly, the choose to help themselves.
They may also choose not to be a part of the program after they have entered it and found that it doesn't work for them.
They may choose to return to the sending school, choose job corps, choose dropping out, or whatever, but the choise is theirs.
When discipline revolves around choice, and people accept responsibility for the decisions they make, a whole new world of opportunity arises.
Patty
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Alternative "Carrots" by Bryan Hassel 
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