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Mitchell has turned its public
high school into a boarding
school, taking in students from
afar and giving them a taste of
rural life, some old-fashioned dis
cipline, and a chance to stay out
of trouble.
"There isn't much to do in
Mitchell, and we try to make
studying a priority," said Michael
Carroll, the school superinten
dent who's also principal, ath
letic director. Spanish teacher
and a substitute bus driver
Students like )nime, who pay
only a $75 monthly dormitory
foe, see Mitchell's boarding
school as a ( heap alternative to
private school. Townspeople see
it as a way to save their high
school from closing for lack of
students
County population has been
shrinking for years. When Carroll
arrived in 1975. Mitchell had 40
students in grades 9-12. Now
there are 29. not (.minting dorm
students, and in four years there
may lie only 15.
Thai’s not enough to support a
high si hool, Carroll said Many
students already endure long bus
rides in from ranches; if
Mitchell's high school i losed,
tliev would have to attend other
s< boots at least 45 minutes away.
The hoarding school prevents
that, for even student enrolled,
Miti hell School District gets
$4,500 from the state By adding
dorm students to keep enrollment
steady. the high si hool can pay
its four teat hers and maintain its
programs
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The dorm — Ihree singlewide
trailers stut:k together near the
football field — opened in Sep
tember 1992. Its 14 beds, half for
girls, half for boys, have been
filled since February, with a wait
ing list of 25.
For some new students, the
culture shock is severe.
From the school's hillside
perch, a potholed road passes 50
or so houses before dropping
down to Mitchell's business dis
trict two stores, a gas station,
throe cafes and a post office
That's about it Outside town,
cattle and sheep roam the volleys:
logging roads climb into the
forested hills. Mitchell is a place
where they play country western
music at school dances, a place
where kids can walk the streets
at night, provided they watch for
deer hounding by.
It's also a place where people
are expected to pull their own
weight.
"Kids leant to get lost in the big
schools." said Dennis Dalton,
math and science teacher.
"There's no way to get lost here.
Everybody is noticed."
Mitchell is not running a
n-form school — a record of vio
lence is the one automatic dis
qualifier for applicants — but
(iis< iplinu is stricter than at most
public schools.
If a lioy and girl are caught kiss
ing in the hall, they may have to
stand three! feet apart the rest of
tlie day. If students say "shut up"
in Mr. Misener's c lass, they'll !>e
writing "shut up" 1,000 times.
Dorm students must do 30
minutes of homework each night
I>efore lights go out at 10:15 p in.
For every D, an extra half-hour of
homework is required; for every
F. one hour.
Mitchell is not for everyone.
Half of last year's dorm residents
did not return tins fall. And set -
en have been kicked out since the
program liegun, four for drinking,
one for smoking, one for sneak
ing off with her boyfriend for a
weekend, and one for smuggling
a marijuana bung in.
"If they don't want to !m> here,
then we don’t wont them." (air
roll said "We re set up for the kid
who wants to come here, wants
to do well, and wants to get
along."
Those who stay seem to thrive,
despite bouts ot homesickness.
Nearly all have improved their
grades, and most participate in
school activities and sports In
Mitchell, everyone makes the
team.
|o Ann Reynolds, 18, arrived
lost year after drifting in and out
of classes in Astoria, on the Ore
gon Coast.
Her absences there weren't
noticed, she said. "Nobody even
cared I didn't do my work. 1 got
deeper in a hole, and I couldn't
get out."
Now, her Ds have turned into
Bs. She is student council sec
retary. and she's taking extra
classes so she can graduate next
spring.
Heather Sullivan. 14. came this
fall. Mitchell saved her from a
Portland high school where, she
says, "there are drugs all over the
place, and if you narc on some
body, you're dead.”
Her tough shell — "I wasn't
going to let anybody get close to
me" — soon dissolved in the
dormitory's cramped quarters.
The dorm is like any house
hold with a teen-ager, times 14.
There are shrieks when the
phone rings, arguments over the
shower, laughter and shouting
and kids running by constantly.
Boys are on one side, girls on
the other, separated by a dining
area and TV room, where they
park themselves on Montezuma's
Revenge, a green velvet couch as*
ugly as it is comfortable.
Dorm life revolves around Mar
garet McDaniel, 44. a divorced
mother hired to live there. The
kids call her Mom, and she's
always home when they got out
of school, baking cookies, bro
kering arguments, bugging them
to do their homework. For some
students, she provides a sense of
security they never got at home.
"A lot of them come from bro
ken families." she said. "A lot of
them have plain old been hurt
out there They can cover it up,
but there's that sadness. All you
can do is love them."
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