Before 2012 the school was called sky high, they merge with black rock to become one school for troubled kids. This school is now featured in a Sundance film called The Bad Kids written and directed by Keith Fulton, and Lou Pepe. One of the people that took a chance on these kids is Vonda Vinland Some background on the school is that kids that doesn’t make a lot of money they have a program for them for free lunch and reduce lunch. About 80% of the kids that …show more content…
In addition to individual contract work, each student participates in two directed classes a week in all core subject areas. Vonda Vinland and the teachers of black rock high school they go out of their way to help the students so they can be successful in life. Some example of what they do for the students is they call them to make sure they are up for school. Then another thing is that they check up on them almost every week to make sure the students are doing okay at home and at school. With their curriculum they have a reward system where students get gold slips; this allows them to earn several of things that they can pick out a prize at the end of every week. The only thing they don’t have is extracurricular activates the \black rock high school but they join a club like theater or they can join or a band that they can also join. With the bad kids going to this school it have them a look on life that everyone gets a second chance to