A local alternative schooling center, serving about 130 students from the region, is meeting the needs of its attendees well in its new building, say administrators. The new building for the Lifetime Learning Center, located on Western Avenue North in Fergus Falls, opened last spring. Dean Larson helped his brother, Dave, and Dave's wife, Barbara Tolbert create the school in the mid 1990s. LLC provides supplemental education services such as remediation, tutoring, enrichment and ACT preparation.
Completed courses receive appropriate grades and are transferred to a student's transcripts.
Dave said one advantage of study at LLC is the absence of a calendar system. Unlike standard schools, students at LLC study at their own pace and pick up the next subject when finished. About 100 of the students take classes between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. They only attend LLC for one hour twice a week, allowing them to continue their classes at the public high school. The remaining students attended classes during the daytime.