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Upward Bound High SchoolUpward Bound High School (Hartwick, NY) was the first alternative education program in Otsego County, New York. Created by English teacher Mike Newell and principal Mark Rathbun, the school was first located in the basement of a Unitarian church in Oneonta, NY. Created in the mid-1980s, Upward Bound strived to create an environment for "at-risk" high schoolers more conducive to learning than public school. By pooling together the students having the most difficulty functioning, regardless of the root of the problem, Upward Bound brought students together by eliminating labels. In classes of a maximum of eight students, each student could now properly be concentrated on. Though the school has ostensibly disappeared within the last three years, the program still continues, though with less of an eye toward individuality. After the move to Hartwick, New York, Upward Bound students had their own campus and building, providing a safe location in which to thrive. Always a part of the Otsego-Northern-Catskills BOCES program, Upward Bound most recently joined the local occupational education center in their own wing of the facility. With this transformation, and more closely-controlled operations by new BOCES management, founding instructors were soon pushed out or pressed to resign. Though now almost unrecognizable, the school still represents a progressive approach that has yet to make its away to the corners it would most benefit.
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