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What You Should Know About

Fenster Boarding School

Is your teenager an under achiever? Lack motivation? Does your teen behave disrespectfully to family members? Ignore household curfews and rules? Does your troubled teen make unwholesome choices? Is it difficult to provide full time structure and follow through due to overwhelming schedules?

The Fenster School is a COED boarding school focused on helping troubled teenage students who have the ability to achieve and do not due to motivational and personal choice. Uniquely positioned to provide a wholesome, structured environment that helps students prepare for the real world both academically and behaviorally.

Most of our boarding school students arrive as academic underachievers or as poor choice makers and yet we have very high expectations for all of them:

  • Grow in self-esteem via achievement and positive RECOGNITION
  • Make better decisions over time concerning all aspects of behavior
  • Become increasingly self-motivated
  • Be punctual
  • Be good roommates and cooperate with dorm parents
  • Show respect to staff and other students and expect it in return
  • Exhibit proper behavior in classes
  • Reduce attempts at manipulation
  • Behave as well during vacations with parents as on our campus
  • Respect the desert and its wildlife
  • Cultivate wholesome friendships
  • Work willingly with our college counselors
  • Cooperate on trips
  • AND MANY MANY MORE INCLUDING …..

Earn the core credits required for admittance at the University of Arizona and all like universities or upon parental request, seek a diploma that allows for transition to a Junior College. Also, earn transferable college credit by taking concurrent college courses at Fenster.

Some of the critical elements in our unusual approach to academic success:

  • WEEKLY % GRADE REPORTS
  • IMMEDIATE REMEDIATION, IF NECESSARY, WITH AFTER SCHOOL TEACHER TUTORIALS AND EVENING STUDY SESSIONS
  • POSITIVE RECOGNITION IN DAILY ASSEMBLIES
  • A FIRM BELIEF IN MAKE-UP AND EXTRA CREDIT WORK AS LEGITIMATE WAYS TO BRING UP GRADES
  • SMALL CLASSES
  • TEACHERS WHO BELIEVE IN OUR BOARDING SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY AND IN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

Providing structure that enables our students to thrive behaviorally!

  • The power we get from our parents enables us to enforce a reasonable set of rules. The vast majority of our students choose to do it the easy way.
  • WHEN CONSEQUENCES ARE NECESSARY, THEY CONSIST OF THE LOSS OF FREEDOM REPLACED BY A VARIETY OF USEFUL ACTIVITIES
  • We don't believe in suspending students back to their parents.

We are sure the information that has been provided to you will generate many questions about our boarding school philosophy. We are available either in person or by telephone at any time to answer those questions:
Don Saffer
Headmaster - (520) 749-3340
Fester Boarding School

  


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