Alternative high schools are a blessing for students who just couldn't seem to find their way in traditional learning environments. One in Northern Michigan, however, is getting some much-deserved attention.
Excerpt: The school on Beaver Island, Mich., is not a place you end up by accident.
A flight on a small plane or a two-hour ride on a ferry into the northern reaches of Lake Michigan gets you as far as St. James, the northern hub of Beaver Island. It takes another half hour by car, down bumpy gravel roads, to get to the south tip of the island and the small cluster of classroom buildings and log cabins, shadowed by the historic lighthouse for which this secluded alternative high school is named.
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Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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