It doesn't make much difference whether you have two nights or one night, whether the courses are a year long or six weeks long, whether there is lots of choice or no choice, whether you go to camp four times or not at all. Especially when we are talking about teenagers. The planner is not to be detoured. There used to be this computer game called Pipeline. They would start the water flowing at one side of the board and you had to hurry to put pipe segments in place before the water spilled all over the board.
High school is important.
We've learned from Steven M. Cohen that the name of the game is getting our kids from birth to their sophomore year of college. Every place you let them leak out, you lose. It is not programs, but people who make the calls to the kids who haven't come back. It is not the model, but the teacher who sits and listens to the story of the family breaking up. They just don't get it.