Do Students HaveThe Opportunity To Do Well At Los Angeles Continuation High Schools?
Continuation high schools have long had the reputation as being intended for those students who just can’t make it in a regular high school environment. Created all the way back in the beginning of the century, continuation schools were brought into the educational picture to provide individualized instruction, more concentrated guidance counseling, and school schedules flexible enough to meet the needs of their many students. Teens aged sixteen years or older that do not have enough high school credits and are therefore at the risk of not graduating at all comprise the classroom folk who attend continuation schools. In other words, these are the adolescents who are the most vulnerable and at the highest risk of dropping out of school altogether. A lack of credits can occur for many reasons, namely because these students would rather use drugs and ditch school than to attend lectures, or on the other end of the spectrum they cannot speak English well enough to excel in a regular school
