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An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional. Such schools offer a wide range of philosophies and teaching methods; some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientations, while others are more ad hoc assemblies of teachers and students dissatisfied with some aspect of mainstream or traditional education.
Some schools are based on pedagogical approaches differing from that of the mainstream pedagogy employed in a culture, while other schools are for gifted students, children with special needs, children who have fallen off the track educationally, children who wish to explore unstructured or less rigid system of learning, etc.
Usage examples of "alternative school".
Then I wanted a change so I upgraded my certificate and taught high school in a private alternative school&mdash.
Then I wanted a change so I upgraded my certificate and taught high school in a private alternative school—.
Just next door, in the adjacent building, was Pass/Go, the alternative school for the children housed at Fresh Start.
We were holding a meeting about the possibility of starting an alternative school for our kids, and one parent mentioned the problem of the media’.