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The Forgotten Room: Inside a Public Alternative School for At-Risk Youth

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Located in a rapidly-growing county in the southeastern United States, Peachtree Alternative School is a dumping ground for chronically disruptive students that regular teachers can no longer handle. The school has some of the toughest kids that society has to offer: kids who have dealt drugs, attempted rape, brought weapons to school, and made terrorist threats. Neglect, understaffing, and overcrowding create a volatile situation; Teachers survive threats, assaults, brawls, and rampages with their therapeutic philosophies barely intact.

The Forgotten Room is a teacher survival story. It examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year. It offers a glimmer of hope in the safe zones created by hardworking teachers, but it is also a cautionary tale about the consequences of bureaucrats neglecting troubled teens.

Hollowell's multidisciplinary book provides a rare look at public alternative schooling in America. This gritty and compelling ethnography is part of a growing movement in academia to make ethnographic studies more accessible. It exposes punitive school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and reveals school board corruption. In addition, it pinpoints quality teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic nonfiction, The Forgotten Room breaks down the walls between social science and literature.

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The author gives an almost day- by -day riveting account of her year as a substitute teacher in an alternative school in rural Georgia. We learn how "tough kids" can be treated with respect and given freedom of choice and movement by "creative compassionate, healthy adults who facilitate last-ditch learning," and it is a must-read for those of us who deplore the dehumanizing treatment of students in the rapidly growing alternative school mania. --Constance Curry, author, activist, and fellow at the Department of Women's Studies at Emory University

- how the teachers faced day to day challenges dealing with students who seemed to be on the quick path to a self-destructive life ... The Forgotten Room is a must read for those trying to understand why a good future starts in the classroom. --Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Mary Hollowell is associate professor of education at Clayton State University and winner of the 2010 Equity & Social Justice Advocate Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lexington Books (October 26, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0739134957
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0739134955
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.34 x 0.69 x 9.45 inches

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Mary Hollowell is a former science teacher in Griffin-Spalding County Schools. Some of her articles on at-risk youth have appeared in American Indian Quarterly, American Secondary Education, and The High School Journal. She revisits Peachtree Alternative School in a book chapter on therapeutic art & writing in Greg Goodman's Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn.

Dr. Hollowell is a graduate of Davidson College, where she majored in biology, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as Director of Education at Cincinnati Museum Center, which has a children's museum, a history museum, and a natural history museum. Mary also worked at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in England and for the National Park Service in Washington DC. She enjoys dancing, reading, and spending time with her family.