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Open High School is an alternative public high school in urban Oregon Hill in Richmond, Virginia. It was established in 1972 with the intention of helping students become independent, self-determined thinkers and learners. Students volunteer at a variety of places, take college courses for high school and college credit, and independently develop and maintain a class schedule. The school building was originally built with money and on land donated by Grace Arents.

Structure

Open High School has a community-based structure where advisory homeroom-like groups known as "families" direct students in the development of school activities, functions, and other school related activities. Each family selects two student representatives to represent them in a Student Representative Council.

At meetings of this council, student reps bring forth questions, disagreements, or ideas that the "family" might have and that they would like to bring forth to the student body. If a concern gets enough attention, or if an individual student would like to set it into motion, it is brought up during a monthly "town meeting", where the entire present administrative staff and entire present student body come together in order to discuss and vote on anything that a single student or group of students may deem important.

Due to its selective application system, and comparatively small school facility, Open High School has a lesser number of students than that of other school in its district, Richmond Public Schools, allowing for a smaller student-teacher ratio.

Students are given the opportunity to create their own elective classes in combination with a teacher sponsor, known as a 'Thursday Class' These classes are typically unrelated to typical school material and instead, feature material the student or teacher deem important or compelling to convey.

Notable alumni

Anne Holton, Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2014 to 2016 and wife of Tim Kaine, who was the vice-presidential running mate of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.^[1]^[2]
Aimee Mann, American rock singer.^[3]
Noah Scalin, contemporary artist in Richmond, Virginia.

References

^ Jason Horwitz, For Anne Holton, Tim Kaine's Wife, Elite Circles Are Old Turf, New York Times (August 5, 2016).
^ Louis Llovio, Anne Holton, wife of Tim Kaine, steps down as Va. secretary of education
^ Freewheelin' 78, a publication of the Open High School. p. 132.

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[HorowitzTurf-1] Jason Horwitz, For Anne Holton, Tim Kaine's Wife, Elite Circles Are Old Turf, New York Times (August 5, 2016).

[TimesDispatchSteps-2] Louis Llovio, Anne Holton, wife of Tim Kaine, steps down as Va. secretary of education

[3] Freewheelin' 78, a publication of the Open High School. p. 132.

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 ==Structure==
-Open High School has a [[Community-based development|community-based structure]] where advisory homeroom-like groups known as "families" direct students in the development of school [[Curriculum|activities]], functions, and other [[Extracurricular activity|school related activities]]. Each family selects two student reps to [[Representative democracy|represent]] them in a [[Students' union|Student Representative Council]].
+Open High School has a [[Community-based development|community-based]] structure where advisory homeroom-like groups known as "families" direct students in the development of school [[Curriculum|activities]], functions, and other [[Extracurricular activity|school related activities]]. Each family selects two student representatives to [[Representative democracy|represent]] them in a [[Students' union|Student Representative Council]].
-At meetings of this council, student reps bring forth questions, disagreements, or ideas that a "family" may have and would like to discuss with the whole student body. If a concern gets enough attention, it is brought up during a monthly "[[town meeting]]", where the entire administrative staff and student body come together to discuss and vote on anything that a single student or group of students may deem important.
+At meetings of this council, student reps bring forth questions, disagreements, or ideas that the "family" might have and that they would like to bring forth to the student body. If a concern gets enough attention, or if an individual student would like to set it into motion, it is brought up during a monthly "[[town meeting]]", where the entire present administrative staff and entire present student body come together in order to discuss and vote on anything that a single student or group of students may deem important.
-Open High School does not have as many students as other high schools throughout Richmond due to the building's smaller size. This allows for a smaller [[student-teacher ratio]].
+Due to its selective application system, and comparatively small school facility, Open High School has a lesser number of students than that of other school in its district, Richmond Public Schools, allowing for a smaller [[student-teacher ratio]].
-Students are able to create their own elective classes with teacher sponsors.
+Students are given the opportunity to create their own elective classes in combination with a teacher sponsor, known as a 'Thursday Class' These classes are typically unrelated to typical [[school]] material and instead, feature material the student or teacher deem important or compelling to convey.
 ==Notable alumni==
-* [[Anne Holton]], Secretary of Education for the [[Commonwealth of Virginia]] from 2014 to 2016 and wife of [[Tim Kaine]], who was the vice-presidential [[running mate]] of [[Hillary Clinton]] in the 2016 election.<ref name="HorowitzTurf">Jason Horwitz, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/us/politics/anne-holton-tim-kaine.html For Anne Holton, Tim Kaine's Wife, Elite Circles Are Old Turf], ''New York Times'' (August 5, 2016).</ref><ref name="TimesDispatchSteps">Louis Llovio, [http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_cec7591c-09e7-5cc0-a276-52b4a6c4fd1d.html Anne Holton, wife of Tim Kaine, steps down as Va. secretary of education]</ref>,
+* [[Anne Holton]], Secretary of Education for the [[Commonwealth of Virginia]] from 2014 to 2016 and wife of [[Tim Kaine]], who was the vice-presidential [[running mate]] of [[Hillary Clinton]] in the 2016 election.<ref name="HorowitzTurf">Jason Horwitz, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/us/politics/anne-holton-tim-kaine.html For Anne Holton, Tim Kaine's Wife, Elite Circles Are Old Turf], ''New York Times'' (August 5, 2016).</ref><ref name="TimesDispatchSteps">Louis Llovio, [http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_cec7591c-09e7-5cc0-a276-52b4a6c4fd1d.html Anne Holton, wife of Tim Kaine, steps down as Va. secretary of education]</ref>
 * [[Aimee Mann]], American rock singer.<ref>''Freewheelin' 78'', a publication of the Open High School. p. 132.</ref>
 * [[Noah Scalin]], contemporary artist in Richmond, Virginia.
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 * [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGIbNP2lRL7-D5ZJQQSth9Q Open High Announcements YouTube page]
 * [https://ohs.rvaschools.net/ Open High School website]
+* [https://www.rvaschools.net/ Richmond Public Schools Website]
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