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Recovery high schools: supportive education, not enough spaces.
It is difficult to pinpoint when an approach used in a few places becomes a movement, but the time is at hand for recovery schools, tiny public and private high schools that serve students who have been in treatment for substance dependence and abuse and who seek an education away from former drug-using peers. Formed in 2002, the Association of Recovery Schools lists 20 high schools and several colleges as members.
The first recovery school was started in Minnesota in the late 1980s as a grassroots effort to help high school students stay clean and sober, Andrew J. Finch, the Director of ARS and Community High School in Nashville, Tenn., told CPLR. He said that recovery schools have been enormously successful. The relapse rate for students who return to their regular high schools after treatment is 70 to 80 percent; Finch said the numbers are the opposite for students who attend recovery schools.
The schools are selective. Craig Swanson, Program Director of Sobriety High School in St. Paul, Minn., told CPLR that students must agree in writing to abstain from drugs and alcohol, to attend school regularly, to behave well and perform work, and to continue in a 12-step program, such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous. Juli Ferraro, Principal of Serenity High in McKinney, Texas, a Dallas suburb of 100,000, told CPLR that teenagers must be highly motivated to stay away from drugs to be accepted into her high school, which ranges from 22 to 29 students.
The requirements of signing a contract and being highly motivated are the entry conditions for attendance at what many parents and education professionals would consider dream high schools. From a student's perspective, there is plenty of attention.
Small, Focused, and No Homework
Class sizes range from four to 14; teachers and administrative staff know every child by name and interact with students on a daily basis; students are in similar circumstances; and the schools celebrate progress with social activities. Enrollment is not more than 60 students, with the average at 30, Finch told CPLR.
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