Scott Bess
Head of School, Purdue Polytechnic High School Indianapolis
We can get them into college, but if they go to college and they struggle, or if they drop out after a couple of years, or if they get a job but then they struggle to keep it, to me we've failed, even though there may be a hundred other things that have happened. But we didn't set them up with the ability to handle the things that will happen. Any judgment of a high school has to be really on what happens after the students leave and go into their next thing.
So we focus on that, so that means it's more than just trying to get you to score well on the ACT or SAT, it's more than just getting you to get the credits to graduate, it is giving you the true skill sets that allow you to adapt on the fly to life circumstances, to challenges, to anything that might happen to you. That you're ready for it, and you can adapt, and you can be successful.
