Lake Orion High School - Dragon Yearbook (Lake Orion, MI)

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Alternative Education Initiated this year, Alternative Education is a program now in the planning phase, to help more students of this high school succeed. Our school isn't the first to use it, however, Waterford has a model program which L.O. has been observing. Waterford received a competitive grant from the Federal government to develop their Alternative Education program and included was 310,000 to 315,000 to help other schools develop their own programs. Our school has benefited from those funds and has initiated a five phase program to develop Alternative Education here. In September of next year the fifth phase will probably begin. Mr. Kinser. Alternative Education director stated that it all started a few years back when people began question- ing how effective the high school was and how it could be -,,,,,.... DONNA COAKLEY ATTENDS the children in child care at Neovec. PAT WATTS CHECKS the balance of a fan in automotive class. . A mi . : . ..M 4 Q if f. 'F x z-.i:,:t'f ,- 'YIf'ir5,?I, ' 4 iff' ifl4P?i'3ffW7E-i??'fl?4v. r A f?.:f,5 , V I 1 it .W :.yWa,, ' L ,.., . ii, Mary Jean Blazo, Harold Carlin, David Cleveland, Calvin Darby, Gary Hughes, James Johnson. 190 Alternative Education

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improved. At first the school worked with schedule changes for those who skipped or dropped out. Sometimes they just tried to persuade kids to come back to school. Mr. Kinser said changing schedules worked in some cases. He also said that the student who often dropped out or skipped was either bored with high school, influenced by his peer group or not challenged by high school. Most of the students who finally dropped out were those who were behind in credits and could never make up their classes. These people are helped by getting them into night school so they could make up their missing credits. Also special education is part of Alternative Education. But more needs to be done to help those for whom regular education doesn't work. Mr. Kinser is confident in this MARY HOLBERT sets someone's hair at Neovec in Cosmetology class. MICHELLE LOWERY cleans a chicken in Food Service. NANCY WATERSTRAT AND KIM DUDDLES ponder over their accounting problems. ,. Jj al. 192 Alternative Education Q VJ fi f,f.1,f,, 'Ji .1 'QT 1 ff W E Q , M .fiaiat up 3: Magi IAQ, Qi,,fw,Vg V A , IV, m ' f ,. , ,,. , tif' ' lg I 'fgl vlzf V Ya N , Nw H 'I 1 fy: .L .. ', I hw , ,fu I I M Af 3 . ' 1. A ..: g X ' , ,. ' ?1 f?'L'f 'ew K JV, K A I gy! , I , A f, -ff 'gb - K M43 9 . . f, ', .l ff 126 f, - , ' Hiwrf QQ l 1