When it comes to schools, one size does not fit all.

• When a student does not thrive in an environmen, he/she needs another.
• We must change the experience of school - the way it looks, tastes and smells, and the reactions it produces in those who are there.
• Several schools are needed that are genuinely different from one another in order for students to have a choice.
• Unsuccessful students need a good education a lot more than do the students who manage to succeed under virtually any circumstances.
• Unless a student can see value in a task and perceive it as intrinsically worth doing, he/she is not likely to become genuinely engaged with it.

Adapted from What To Do With Students Who Are Not Succeeding, by Mary Anne Raywid