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Mendocino Community High School
| Back in 1976, Yehudah founded the Community School for the Mendocino Unified School District. Prior to that, Yehudah founded the Migrant Farmworkers School for the Davis Unified School District at Holmes Jr. High School in Davis, California. Due to a very fortunate series of circumstances, Yehudah was given the opportunity to form what would become the most creative secondary alternative school in the state of California. |
One day, as he was walking passed the office of his lifelong friend and supervisor, Dr. Don Kirkpatrick, who at that time was the principal of Holmes Jr. High, Don asked him to step in for a shmooze. Quickly, he announced that he had just been appointed as the Superintendent of Schools in Mendocino, California. Before Yehudah could congratulate him, Don causally said, "Hey, do you want to come with me and start an alternative high school?"
And just like that the Community School was born. It began with Yehudah's Volkswagen bus crisscrossing over 400 square miles of redwood forest in search of high school students who had dropped out. In less than a year, he had gathered enough students to transform his endeavor into a high school that is still going strong today. By the way, he is still in touch with Don and his wife Shirley, and remain friends to this day.
Mendocino Community High School is a fully accredited, 9-12th grade alternative program within the Mendocino Unified Schools system. The Community School program features creativity and flexibility in designing individual student schedules and relies on student maturity and self-motivation in pursuit of unique learning opportunities. The school combines its own course offerings with those of MHS, ROP and CR. A wide range of directed and independent studies, apprenticeships, work opportunities and personal learning experiences are available to students, who work with an advisor to plan and develop their learning paths through high school.
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