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Student Services Branch || Alternative Schools Department
To provide a learning environment that
promotes the development of literacy, numeracy and pro-social
skills and helps students transition to a successful
future.
We recognize that our students are deficient in the basic
academic and/or social skills which are necessary to lead successful
lives in our culture. Therefore we work hard at teaching our
students how to read and write with facility and skill, how to
operate efficiently in the world of mathematics, and how to make
decisions and act in a pro-social, as opposed to anti-social,
manner.
We recognize that the fact that we are a school, the educational
partner in the continuum of services offered to children and youth.
We serve the critical educational needs of
eligible students in Santa Clara County. Since 1958, we have
provided quality school services to delinquent, disruptive,
disadvantaged, and disabled children and youth. While we continue
our historical commitment to education, we realize that we are not
the solution to every problem.
- We assess student performance, but we are not an assessment
center.
- We care for our students, not by being an alternative to
school but an alternative school, helping students achieve
success and realize quality academic standards.
- We promote student responsibility and growth, but we are not a
counseling center.
- We help students overcome anti-social behavior, but we are not
a law enforcement agency.
- We educate adjudicated students, but we are not a punishment
or a sentence.
- We meet our students’ most critical educational needs, but
we are not a comprehensive secondary school.
- We assist parents in their task of raising responsible
citizens, but we are not the parents.
- We teach students with complex and complicated lives, but we
are not a mental health or social service agency
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