meekajr asks
12 years ago
Is ALC a well known educational term or is it more of a regional thing?
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brina1300 says
12 years ago
I have no idea what it is?
bookjewel says
12 years ago
Never heard of it!
Merry says
12 years ago
I have not heard of it either
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lovesfinefabric
12 years ago
must be regional. :-P What does it mean?
mindelei says
12 years ago
No idea...
teach4chocolat says
12 years ago
Is it just a Minnesota thing? Uffdah.
teach4chocolat says
12 years ago
:-D
TMNTfrog says
12 years ago
idk... I think I have heard of it, but my dad speaks acronyms...
brina1300 says
12 years ago
if you tell us what it means we can tell you what they call it in our states.
meekajr says
12 years ago
Area Learning Center. Often referred to as an Alternative High School. It's a place for students who haven't been successful in the
meekajr says
12 years ago
usual learning environment. Often, it's because of behavior issues, but not necessarily. Are these common elsewhere?
TMNTfrog says
12 years ago
Alternative schools are fairly common in Montana, but usually in the bigger cities
mindelei says
12 years ago
In Michigan most school districts have an alternative school, Minnesota too. They are in Kansas as well.
bknittle
12 years ago
we have them with in our high schools but are called ALP - Alternate Learning Programs.
brina1300 says
12 years ago
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.
mindelei says
12 years ago
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
mindelei says
12 years ago
much better behaved than at the traditional school in that district.
mindelei says
12 years ago
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
mindelei says
12 years ago
kids" - although some in the community had that misconception.
TMNTfrog says
12 years ago
Many of the students who go to a school like this have a determination to be there
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