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Crossroads School

$26.05

Imagine getting up to go to school tomorrow, and knowing without a doubt that you will be miserable. That you won’t be able to do the work your teachers expect; that kids will bully you; that you’ll feel stupid all day. Imagine begging your parents to stay home, but knowing you’ll have to go. . . every day for what feels like forever, with no hope that anything will ever change. Imagine believing that you are, and always will be, a failure—though no one may ever have told you directly, that’s the message you’ve gotten for years. This is the experience of students who fall through the cracks of our traditional schools, whether because of learning disabilities, or difficult home lives, or even simply because they learn best in ways that don’t “fit” in traditional schools.

Crossroads School gives students like this the opportunity to attend classes that meet them where they are, where they feel like teachers care about them and have time for them, where they can find success. At Crossroads School, teachers get to know each student, give them lessons that are at their level, and coach them one-on-one to really learn. Students don’t move on until they earn at least a B—sometimes for the first time in their lives. They find success in one small thing, and gain confidence to try the next thing. You have given this experience to struggling students. For only $4,  you can provide empowering education for one student for one class.

Crossroads School provides empowering education to students every day, but we can’t do it without you! As a private school, we receive no federal or state funding. And our minimal tuition covers only 10% of the cost, because we want a Crossroads education to be an option for every student, no matter what their financial situation. Without the support of our community—including you—we can’t continue to offer this individualized, relational, empowering education. Thank you for helping to make this empowering education possible, one class at a time!

  • Address:

    PO Box 183, Longmont, CO 80502

  • Phone:

    (303) 709-9881

  • Website:

    http://crossroadslongmont.org/

  • Year Founded:

    2010

  • EIN (Federal Tax ID Number):

    271518112

  • Mission Statement:

    The mission of Crossroads School is to assist students who have experienced academic and/or behavioral struggles in traditional schools to reach their potential through an individually distinctive, learner-appropriate program.

For the teachers I will send my everlasting gratitude that you persisted through the meltdowns . . .every one of you was there for a pep talk or even a hug. . . thank you for helping me find my purpose as a teacher myself.

- Abigail, 2018 graduate

I still can’t get over how blessed we are to have (our daughter) attending Crossroads School.  Just 2 years ago I stressed about her education so much that I couldn’t sleep at night and during the day I was in a constant state of anxiousness.  Our lives have changed exponentially. (Her) life has turned completely around.  Now that she is excelling in school she is a completely different person. Thanks to everyone for caring about her education, self-worth, mental health and her future. I’ll end here with WOW!!!!!

- Nancy, parent of 11th grader

Crossroads is a place for those who are in need of a good education so they can get a good vocation. Crossroads is very flexible not to what the students want but to what is necessary to help the students get the kind of education they need. . . . Crossroads is the real deal. Without your support, only God knows where all of the students and I that came to Crossroads would end up, and I do not want to take a guess. In other words, thank you.

- Luke, 2016 graduate

  • Program Name:

    Alternative Education

  • Program Description:

    Crossroads provides at-risk students with the opportunity to learn classes of 8-10 students with an individualized, mastery-based, highly-relational approach. This allows students to rebuild confidence, develop skills, and ultimately find hope for the future.

  • Beneficiaries:

    40-50 6th-12th grade students each year who are not successful in traditional schools

  • Budget:

    300000

  • Success Story:

    After being diagnosed with ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in second grade, school became something Brandon Reynolds dreaded. His classroom experiences turned into a nightmare in fifth grade—when he began experiencing tics so severe there was a concern he was having seizures.

    After trial and error, medication was found to help with ADHD; later it contributed to the severity of the tics. When Brandon began feeling depressed and talking about suicide, a neurologist made adjustments to his medications.

    The teasing and bullying Brandon experienced in school was bad enough—and then one of his teachers had the audacity to ask him why he even bothered coming to school. The relationship between his mom, Tanya, and the teacher became strained—and then, two weeks shy of her son completing fifth grade so he could graduate into middle school, Tanya was called into the principal’s office and told, “Take him home and don’t bring him back.”

    Given all Brandon had experienced, public school was no longer an option. School and teachers weren’t equipped to handle Brandon’s need for a special education environment. Teachers who set up an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) for him soon became frustrated. And Brandon experienced bullying so severe he would beg his mom, “Don’t make me go to school.”

    Heartsick, Tanya began home-schooling Brandon—it was to be a temporary measure until she could find a school where Brandon’s needs would be met. Neither she nor her son liked home-schooling. After a full day at work Tanya had little energy left for teaching. And Brandon spent weekdays home alone.

    Four months later, when she learned about Crossroads, Tanya was ecstatic! Finally, a school where Brandon’s specific educational needs would be addressed—a school where Brandon would make friends and find teachers who were caring and compassionate.

    Today, fourteen-year-old Brandon is a ninth-grade student at Crossroads. Math is his favorite class, and he finds it easy to talk with Mrs. Damick, who teaches science. Brandon also likes his health class at CDC (Career Development Center). The bullying he endured has given him a heart for those who are hurting—he wants to help others by someday working in the medical field.

    To his peers struggling in public school, Brandon says, “This school has helped me a lot. I think it’ll help you.” His mother says, “Don’t tell me God didn’t do this—they [Crossroads] saved my son’s life.”

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