Another 'drop-out'!
Some pretty normal kids can end up being drop-outs or kicked-outs & in alternative schools. (Consider, for one, some of the draconian 'zero tolerance' rules in the public school system.) Problem is that some seriously abnormal/ dangerously psychotic ones are there as well.
Very true. I ended up in an alternative high school myself. I fell behind on credits when I got sick and then from just kind of giving up on the idea of catching up. I wasn't a drop out, a druggie or violent. I had two parents who actually talked me into doing that INSTEAD of dropping out and getting my GED.
Going to the alternative school enabled me to make up six and a half credits in less than two quarters and allowed me to graduate on time with a 3.8 GPA. They aren't all losers.
The punks that did this, however, are scum, and probably would have been so no matter what school they had attended, imo.