Hitting Rock Bottom (eBook)

New Beginnings for At-risk Youth

Gary J Rose (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
382 Seiten
Gary Rose Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-9988777-2-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Forty-two teenage men and women, all wearing camouflage Army uniforms, standing in columns with their platoons, as the American flag is being raised. Many of their uniforms displayed metals for outstanding performance. All of them proud of what they represented the Alder Grove Academy. They came from most of Placer County's high schools, court and community schools and junior high. Even though they each had their own story, they were either arrested and placed on probation and/or suspended or expelled and sent to the Academy as their last shot at turning their lives around. Most of these at-risk students hated school and their truancy had resulting in credit deficiencies. Others had rebelled against authority figures at their school. Some had alcohol and drug use problems that further their downward spiral. At the Alder Grove Academy they would come face to face with a retired police sergeant who prided himself as an ';Old School' teacher. They would be entering a school that operated on order, structure and discipline. There were no victims in the Academy. For many, this would be the hardest academic and physical school they had ever attended. In partnership with the U.S. Army, they would slowly become a family learning that their choices from here on out, depended on whether they had reached rock bottom and sincerely wanted to change. They offer their stories in hopes of turning at least one at-risk students around like they did.

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductory Note to Our Readers, by Gary J. Rose                          PART I     A MATTER OF BELONGINGThe Alder Grove Academy Cadet OathCHAPTER 1     What It Looks Like At Rock BottomCHAPTER 2     Journals -- In the BeginningCHAPTER 3     From Animals to CupcakesCHAPTER 4     Journals -- Where We Come FromCHAPTER 5     We All BleedCHAPTER 6     Journals -- Family TiesCHAPTER 7     You Can't Save EveryoneCHAPTER 8     Journals -- A Message from Death Row to At-Risk Teens                          Part II        STAND AND DELIVERCHAPTER 9      Blueprint for an AcademyCHAPTER 10    Journals -- Some Sort of Military SchoolCHAPTER 11    Marshaling Our ForcesCHAPTER 12    Journals -- Rise and ShineCHAPTER 13    Turning Troubled Teens into CadetsCHAPTER 14    Journals -- Forward MarchCHAPTER 15    AGA Program PhasesCHAPTER 16    Journals -- Marching in UnisonCHAPTER 17    Going to School Spartan-StyleCHAPTER 18    Journals -- Promotions, Parties and PenaltiesCHAPTER 19    A Parade of Pride at AGA - 2CHAPTER 20    Journals -- Reading, Writing and Running Up the Dreaded HillCHAPTER 21    Spartans in ActionCHAPTER 22    Journals -- Of Love and War                           Part III      THE PRICE OF CELEBRITYCHAPTER 23     Spartans in the Spotlight at AGA -3CHAPTER 24     Journals -- The Way Up from Rock BottomCHAPTER 25     Lights Out, a Time to ReflectCHAPTER 26     Journals -- Saying GoodbyeCHAPTER 27     THE LAST DAYCHAPTER 28     For Teens Who Don't Give a Damn - One Cadet's Message                           PART IV      Looking Back"Military Life in Auburn's Midst," by Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal, June 1, 2003Students and Alder Grove Academy Cadets Look BackRecollections of the Alder Grove Academy StaffStatistics:  State of California Department of Juvenile Justice                           PART V        FINAL WARNINGEPILOGUE 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Schlagworte: at-risk students • inspirational stories from at-risk students • Military style boot camp school for youth
• ISBN-10: 0-9988777-2-7 / 0998877727
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9988777-2-3 / 9780998877723