ABSTRACT
Addison Hills High School has about 600 students and fifty staff. Nine buses bring its students from five other towns and the countryside around Addison Hills to the school, each carrying about forty-five students. Addison Hills is not the land of milk and honey but it is the place where these people have arrived and put down their roots. The area, the school, and the students make Addison Hills a pleasant place to teach. Some students at Addison Hills are 'turned off' school. They are so in varying degrees. Some are not at all 'turned off', others would rather not be at school. A school survey shows the school has a problem in this area: many students do not feel well-served by the school's present curriculum and organization. Sergeant Bruce, in charge of the police station for the past fifteen years, tells me there are three kinds of people in the town of Addison Hills.
