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I would strongly recommend looking at Forest Grove Community School to see one alternative that contrasts rather strikingly with  most other schools. 

From their web site: "The Forest Grove Community School is a free public charter school that engages students in scholarship, stewardship and citizenship with the goal of educating for sustainability. We provide a caring, smaller school environment that challenges students to reach their highest potential through learning rooted in the local community."  (www.fgschool.org)  

This is a relatively new school, and still trying to match the idealistic goals they placed in front of them with the realities of implementation, but they are doing a wonderful job.  The emphasis on meeting the individual students where they are and on striving to develop a lifelong love and yearning to learn is something that I think is missing in most schools these days.

posted 3 years, 2 months ago
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