On a remote patch of the Mojave Desert, amidst dusty tumbleweeds along with rangy Joshua Trees, stays an embryo: a high school where teachers believe compassion, life skills, and also the constancy of a caring adult will be the gaps that will give post-graduate pupils command of their fates. On any particular day, if they'll make it to school chief Vonda Viland calls children to find out. Of course, when they need a ride? Well, she will pick up them. Vonda knows each student's struggles and trainers them not fostering expects. Her doctrine combines adoring compassion also given her school's rising graduation rate, it seems to be operating.