Mr. Keith Roden is the Principle, Ms. Donna Pate is the School Counselor, and Ms. Myra Miller is the School Social Worker. The program focuses on promising practices that will encourage successful reintegration into a regular classroom with academic success, the development of improved social interaction and involvement, the understanding and ownership of personal responsibilities, involvement in vocational and avocational exploration, and an understanding of, and path towards, success in life. Students are given the opportunity to acquire positive status-building skills in an unfettered supportive learning environment conducive to the inculcation of such skills. A nonthreatening and unintimidating milieu has been designed to assist the student in acquiring skills by facilitating the child at risk s familiarity and receptivity to the learning experience. The Comprehensive School serves students for whom traditional high schools were not a successful option.
Day care is also available.
All students, with the exception of those who are preparing to take the GED or those who have chosen to follow a certificate path, follow the Standard Course of Study and will potentially meet requirements established by the Department of Public Instruction for a high school diploma. A campus separate from other county schools houses all of the program components described above. Such feedback often results in an aviodant, nonparticipatory, and sometimes angry, defensive posture of behavior. In some cases, the regular school environment has become a barrier to students' senses of personal self-worth and is a constant reminder of their failure to succeed within its boundaries. A lack of apparent accomplishment or purpose invariably culminates not only in a resignation to failure but in an even more sinister gravitation to a negative peer group that ostensibly provides acceptance, purpose, negative attention, and even a sense of success in mastering a deviant behavior.