
Turning Point turns three
Laura Young
ECB Publishing, Inc.
You couldn't ask for a more perfect spring day. It's mid-April, and the sky is full of clichés – bright blue, not a cloud, a fresh breeze. For the students at Jefferson County's Turning Point School, though, the world is anything but a perfect place. They are all school-age, but the typical way of doing school at the county's main K-12 campus hasn't been working out for them. Neither are their families well-suited for managing homeschooling or private school fees, so what are they to do?
The Jefferson County School District has over the years offered an “alternative education center,” a place that many however felt was more a “dumping grou