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An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional.[1][2] Such schools offer a wide range of philosophies and teaching methods; some have political, scholarly, or philosophical orientations and foundings, while others are in response to a need for local or regional desire of diverse educational and vocational outcomes not necessarily fostered through mainstream or federally-regulated public schooling.
Some schools are based on pedagogical approaches differing from that of the mainstream pedagogy employed in a culture, while other schools are for gifted students, children with special needs, children who have fallen off the track educationally or expelled from their base school, children who wish to explore unstructured or less rigid system of learning, etc.
- ^ Definition of alternative school Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 9, 2007. Archived 2009-10-31.
- ^ Definition of alternative school, accessed August 9, 2007.