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Open Doors: Alternative Education, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Dexter Regional High School partners with SAD 46 Adult Education to provide the community's first alternative education program.

Although students currently enrolled in Dexter's alternative program have proven to be bright, well-spoken, and talented with average reading abilities at or above twelfth grade level, the general picture of dropouts is not so rosey. In nearly all cases students are under extreme emotional stress as they struggle against background and social perception to come into their own as individuals. Students qualifying for Alternative Ed. are considered at risk, another in a long line of labels with which each has had to …