To be honest it isn't so much about the schools as it is the teachers themselves. The best school I ever went to was the Alternative Learning Program here in Rhode Island, where we had a small group of maybe 20-25 kids total in the school, and 3-4 teachers total. It was the best education I ever got because it wasn't your basic bookwork schoolwork. Things like that just don't appeal to a large number of kids, you have to get them involved in what they're learning. This is why the teachers there would bring up a topic in say history, and instead of reading a textbook, we'd sit there and have a debate for an hour. It was fantastic especially because here I was this crazy punk kid with all of these radical left-wing politics, and my history teacher was a hardcore Bush-loving conservative. I respected the hell out him though, and we always had great, great debates where he didn't treat me as a child, but as an equal. Of course they ended up drastically cutting the funding of this program after I graduated. Probably because of how well it worked (graduation rate there was insane; something like 98%).
They have the ALP program in Missouri Sly?
