An Alternative School Is Opening for Kids With Behavior Issues — Some as Young as 5
September 26, 2019
By: Donna St. George
Source: The Washington Post
POMFRET, Md. — The walls need paint, the floors are bare and it could be November before children are seated in classrooms. But here, in Southern Maryland, Kimberly Hill sees her surroundings as a solution to increasingly disruptive behavior by the very young.
This space will soon become an alternative school — the kind of separate setting often geared to teenagers who have gotten into trouble. But this one is for the littlest learners, children just beginning school: 5, 6 or 7 years old, in kindergarten and first and second grades.
Critics find the idea appalling.