there is a small thread hanging off the world

More evidence that the attendees would probably be moving into town - this is taken directly from the proposed school's own application document:

With alarming frequency, the youth that Rediscovery, Inc works with are suspended repeatedly, expelled for long periods of time, encouraged to sign themselves out of school to pursue a GED, thus relinquishing any and all 688 rights, and frequently wait while the traditional school system decides which school setting will be the “best fit.” These youth are always 16 years or older. They are typically struggling to graduate from the 9th or 10th grade and will rarely be graduating from the traditional public school system, if at all, by the time they are 18 or 19 years old. For example, as youth move from program to program or foster family to foster family, their town residence and/or school placement is frequently disrupted and the paperwork needed to enroll youth in the new school system can take several weeks to months to follow them. As a result, the traditional public school system refuses to enroll these youth until all of the necessary paperwork is in order. As a result, our youth sit for weeks or months waiting for this to occur and are not educated in any form.