12:36 p.m.: Rosemary Anderson High School serves at-risk students who have been expelled or dropped out of public high school.
Rosemary Anderson is an alternative high school with a student body of approximately 130 students, most of whom have struggled to succeed at other Portland high schools.
The school is renown for its commitment to attend to these students until they reach the age of 25.
"We pretty much force the kids to go to college," said Joe McFerrin, the school's president.
Wow! What kind of college takes these kids who can’t even get a social promotion until age 25?
“...most of whom have struggled to succeed at other Portland high schools.”
Nice try, depicting these pre-prison prospects to a struggling Abe Lincoln trying to get an education. Having had some experience with alternative schools in my life as a teacher, at best, most students are there for social reasons. Education, paid for by the truly struggling tax payers, is the farthest thing from their minds. Gang conflicts and pregnancies were the only noticeable results of their enrollment in these programs.
Please tell me more students, at 25, come out with MBA’s than GED’s right? Guys? Right?
25, wow
#12. UCLA Berkeley, Irvine and Davis will take them. So will Columbia, CUNY, NYU, Brandeis (guilt trip school), Smith, Vassar, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Un. of Wisc (any campus), for starters.
Oh, forgot, when they graduate they can teach at the Un. of Illinois where the only qualification you need is to be or have been a communist terrorist or a gangbanger.
Hmmm. And the college they all go to is the University for Spelling and English Word Usage, no doubt. It's the same one where the webmaster for the school was trained.