Eagle Rock School

I was disturbed by the flagrant anti-​mother campaign this school displayed, even from the first intake interview my son had with the rep they sent to our town. She flagrantly snubbed me and flattered him, which is a tactic I’d seen used many times by immature adults. In fact, his insights about her were the first hopeful signs that just being in the cold outside world might help him get a perspective on himself and our family. But it did get better after we finished the intake process.
Eagle Rock’s has a lot to offer in many ways, and works hard to support kids whose personal and school lives are in disarray. The academic part itself is very good — teachers well trained and caring. but I’m afraid their drop out rate is astonishingly high. I don’t know where they get the 80% claim of graduation, unless you start after the wilderness trip, during which kids are dropped basically because they are not yet in good physical condition. Fully half the kids who enter are gone within a few months. To my knowledge very few black kids make it through. I wish there were a school that could take the multi-thousand’s of dollars Honda gives them for each child and use it to better advantage.