Coastal Alternative School Overview
The Coastal Alternative School offers an alternative program structured to meet the academic and social/emotional needs of young adults grades 9-12. The program is committed to providing its students with an environment that encourages and nourishes their individuality, diversity, and personal growth.
Located in Salisbury, MA, Coastal serves the needs of surrounding communities; Newburyport, Amesbury, Salisbury, Ipswich, Pentucket, Georgetown, Merrimac as well as Hamilton Wenham, Lawrence, Gloucester and many other towns.
Mission
The mission of Coastal Alternative Schools is to
provide an alternative educational setting that
challenges students in both the academic and
social/emotional arenas, in working toward the goal of
becoming responsible and contributing adults. It’s
structure is designed to assist students in identifying
those issues that interfere with academic success, social
functioning and emotional maturity and subsequently
develop strategies that promote healthier relationships
with school, home and community.
School Philosophy
Every person is born with the innate ability to become and
actualized human being. Sometimes along the path to
understanding of ourselves we become lost. This then is the tiem
to find our own realities. To accept that we are neither the “dwarf
of our fears nor the giant of our dreams”, but a human being.
Therefore, we have taken upon ourselves, each and every one of
us, the mission of doing all we can to be of help to one another. It
will take much concern and guidance at each and every stepmaybe
faltering at first, then steadier, and finally sure.
Our school dreams involve students making their way backback to being productive, contributing members of their communities. To have us live life as it should be lived. Facing reality, feeling hurt, feeling anger, feeling love, but more importantly, dealing with that hurt, anger, and love- regardless of how painful the changes may be.
We can then share our way of life with the community, to
develop understanding and sensitivity to life for their benefit, as
well as ours.
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