Small vs. Large High School: What's the Best Fit?

Alan Borsuk continues his excellent, deep look at Milwaukee's high schools:

Some students get lost in their first weeks of high school. But in Bryan Edwards' case, Marshall High School lost him.

The school put Edwards in special education courses - even though he never had been diagnosed with a learning disability. When he went out for football, he said, school officials told him his grade point average was not high enough - even though he had not been enrolled at Marshall long enough to have any grades. And some days he would arrive at school only to be told he was suspended - even when he had done nothing wrong.

About two months into the school year, when Edwards brought home a new ID card, his mother was startled.

"I'm like, 'Bryan, this is not you - this isn't how you spell your name and we don't live at this address,' " Brigette Edwards said.

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Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 13, 2006 6:16 AM
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