The mentality up here is that if you take everything away from a student all at once, their success rate is going to be less. So we allow them to have a smoke break outside the building. They are taken away if students do not follow the rules. We have the parents informed and they have to sign off on that before they come. Each grade has an hour of group time per day, which is used to talk about whatever is on students' minds.
Grades are on a normal scale.
Class rings, honor rolls, student council and dances are other traditional customs at Sobriety High. Susan, who is sober now, explained how Sobriety helped her in her two years there. It saved my life, because if I would have had to go back to my mainstream high school, I could guarantee you that I would have still been doing drugs, drinking, whatever. It made me real. Leaving the security of a small school and heading to college makes the students at Sobriety High worry about how they will deal with their previous addictions.