I have no idea what it is?

Never heard of it!

I have not heard of it either

must be regional. What does it mean?

No idea...

Is it just a Minnesota thing? Uffdah.

idk... I think I have heard of it, but my dad speaks acronyms...

if you tell us what it means we can tell you what they call it in our states.

Area Learning Center. Often referred to as an Alternative High School. It's a place for students who haven't been successful in the

usual learning environment. Often, it's because of behavior issues, but not necessarily. Are these common elsewhere?

Alternative schools are fairly common in Montana, but usually in the bigger cities

In Michigan most school districts have an alternative school, Minnesota too. They are in Kansas as well.

we have them with in our high schools but are called ALP - Alternate Learning Programs.

We have them too. Not referred to as ALC. They have regular names and everyone knows the bad kids go there. One is worse than the other.

I think sometimes that learning center's get a bad rap. I subbed at one in Michigan and I would teach there in a minute. The kids were so

much better behaved than at the traditional school in that district.

Also, TPLC (where I used to work) had learning center in it's name, yet we were a charter school and not an "alternative school for the bad

kids" - although some in the community had that misconception.

Many of the students who go to a school like this have a determination to be there