
The Bad Kids
But on a remote patch of this Mojave Desert, amidst dusty tumbleweeds and rangy Joshua Trees, sits an anomaly: a top school where teachers believe compassion, life skills, and the constancy of a caring adult will be the gaps that'll provide post-graduate pupils command of their fates. At the crack of dawn Vonda Viland calls children on any particular day to determine whether they'll allow it to school. And when they want a ride? Well, she'll pick up them. Vonda knows each student's struggles and coaches them , never fostering hopes. Her philosophy joins loving compassion with realism, and contributed her school graduation rate, it is apparently operating.