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Alternative programs make connections with students that keep them coming back

The principal’s office at Havermale High School is more like a lounge, with a open door and rare moments of solitude.

It isn’t trouble that brings students to Principal Fred Schrumpf’s door. The teens drop in to grab a juice box out of Schrumpf’s small refrigerator, eat lunch or to get advice on a math problem. Sometimes they ask to store their bicycles, or a beloved skateboard.

Sometimes it’s simpler.

“Hey, do you have a quarter?”

Sara Leaming
Staff writer

Full Story: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/apr/12/when-the-school-fits/

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