Lake Park Offers Resources for Failing Students
Posted on: Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 21:00 CST
By Kat Zeman Daily Herald Staff Writer
Lake Park High School in Roselle will introduce a new support program for freshmen and sophomores with multiple failing grades.
Though the district already provides a number of programs for students with difficulties, this one differs because participation is mandatory for students with two or more failing grades.
"Students who are not being successful need that extra help as soon as possible," East Campus Principal Ed Wardzala said.
This semester, the district will set up a special learning resource center at East Campus, 600 S. Medinah Road. It will be staffed with two teachers and one aide during the entire school day. Instead of study hall, students with multiple failing grades will be required to go the resource center every day for 12 weeks.
If at the end of that time, the student has improved his grade to a "C" or better, he will return to study hall.
The program may be another attempt for the school to keep up with increasingly difficult No Child Left Behind standards.
"You're always trying to pick up the kids who fall through the cracks, regardless of No Child Left Behind," Lake Park spokeswoman Terry Ryan said.
Besides this new program, the district already offers optional personalized study sessions, student and staff tutors, mentoring, before and after school access to the resource center and computer labs.
"This program provides more resources to these students," Ryan said. "More than they've had before."
Source: Daily Herald; Arlington Heights, Ill.
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