A suburban high school with a mission. What kids are learning in the classroom. Fitting in, getting ahead and other pressures. The first senior class graduates and heads into the world. I n ThunderRidge's main office, Jim Wallendorf peels a sheet of paper from the stack he's holding and stuffs it into a teacher's mailbox.
Every teacher gets one.
At a staff meeting that afternoon, Wallendorf reads the article aloud. Only a third of the 93 teachers and administrators are here, scattered in seats around the auditorium. In those cases, what we are trying to do is find a place for them to be on a level playing field. Our goal is to get them to try. We need them to buy into what we do.