1980-2002

I found the information on alternative schools to be really interesting. It makes me wonder why there aren't more alternative schools in the country and Maine specifically. I was never asked about going to an alternative school when I was younger. I don't even think my parents knew that alternative schools existed. I think this idea of competition would work a lot better if there was actual competition in the area.
I like the idea of comparing schools to businesses. It makes sense, and the bottom line for schools would be test scores. There are a few flaws with that plan though. I never gave a crap about the standardized tests that I took in school. They didn't count towards my grade in the classes I was taken. I didn't get a prize for doing well. There was really no incentive for trying my hardest. My teachers told us to do our best, obviously, but that had little effect. Maybe if they had explained what the test scores meant as far as money for the school, we would have tried to do better on them.