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The Forgotten Room - Inside a Public Alternative School for At-Risk Youth (Hardcover, New)
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The Forgotten Room - Inside a Public Alternative School for At-Risk Youth (Hardcover, New)
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Located in a rapidly-growing county in the southeastern United
States, Peachtree Alternative School is a dumping ground for
chronically disruptive students that regular teachers can no longer
handle. The school has some of the toughest kids that society has
to offer: kids who have dealt drugs, attempted rape, brought
weapons to school, and made terrorist threats. Neglect,
understaffing, and overcrowding create a volatile situation;
Teachers survive threats, assaults, brawls, and rampages with their
therapeutic philosophies barely intact. The Forgotten Room is a
teacher survival story. It examines the darker side of American
education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative
School's tenth and final year. It offers a glimmer of hope in the
safe zones created by hardworking teachers, but it is also a
cautionary tale about the consequences of bureaucrats neglecting
troubled teens. Hollowell's multidisciplinary book provides a rare
look at public alternative schooling in America. This gritty and
compelling ethnography is part of a growing movement in academia to
make ethnographic studies more accessible. It exposes punitive
school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and
reveals school board corruption. In addition, it pinpoints quality
teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic
nonfiction, The Forgotten Room breaks down the walls between social
science and literature.
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