Bus Takes Teens down Dropout Path
Approximately 400 students from Douglas County High are shown the choice they make if they don't finish school.
Teens enter a familiar environment, walking through the front door of a school bus. They take their seats and view an interactive 25-minute presentation. But when the flat-screen TV and black curtain are pushed to the side, teens face the stark reality that could be their future—if they drop out of school. Students must exit the bus through a full-scale prison cell. A stainless-steel toilet juts out of the wall on one side of the cell, and a mannequin lies just inches from the toilet in a cot on the other wall. The cell door clangs shut behind them. "You can ruin your life, and you haven't barely gotten through the door of the high school." That's the lesson 15-year-old Alexis Johnson, a freshman at Douglas County High School, learned …
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Blake Walker
4:24 am on Friday, April 13, 2012
This is the best think I have heard out of Douglasville in a long time. I think they should show it to 8th Graders as well. Way to go DC Schools!! more ›