Buffalo Alternative High School is where some of the most troubled and most difficult students go to get another chance, having been sent there only after things don't work out in their home schools. Buffalo Alternative is so old and dilapidated, it can't accommodate computers. The science rooms are a disaster. The basement gym is about half the size of a regular classroom. There is no cafeteria.
Students eat prepackaged lunches in the auditorium.
And even though the school has some of the most troubled students in the district, often from broken homes and filled with anger, there are no psychologists on staff at the school. All of which raises the question that board member Wesolowski says she has been asking herself for years. I have a hard time believing people are willing to accept what is happening in the schools, the lack of programs, lack of courses. People have to start getting exercised about this.