>Alternative school is for kids with legitimate behavior issues
it sort of depends on where you go but really that's a misconception. alternative schools are simply that: an alternative to the institutional apathy & intellectually demoralizing environment provided by our modern schools. facilitating a broader array of learning styles can be highly beneficial to those with behavioral problems or disabilities but it is especially empowering for the type of highly intelligent & creative kids who find themselves at odds with the administration & dispassionate structure of our industrial education model.john taylor gatto's criticisms really hit the nail on the head in my opinion. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpycMRTBrfY this sounds like another case of a highly engaged kid being driven out of a school that doesn't deserve what he has to offer. if that absurd & failing system doesn't want him, then all the better.