The South Lane School Board has revoked its charter agreement with Blue Mountain School.

The school board's vote came halfway through Blue Mountain's second, two-year contract with the district.

South Lane provides oversight and gives the school between 80 and 95 percent of state funding for students.

The school has about 65 students in grades Kindergarten through 12.

There are no formal classes or grades and students choose how to spend their days.

Parents and staff of Blue Mountain say they haven't been treated fair and argue the school's system works.

They say two of Cottage Grove High School's valedictorians attended Blue Mountain up until ninth grade.

Hal Sadifsky is a parent and Assembly President of the school he tells us, "We're in the first year of a new contract with the district so they haven't even examined some of the things they asked us to do in the contract yet."

Meanwhile, the district says there have been concerns about academic performance for about two years.

Assistant Superintendent Julie De Pauw says, "the board considered an extensive amount of evidence provided by Blue Mountain and still felt at the review of the evidence the best decision was to terminate their contract."

De Pauw says most problems began after three recent incidents at the school: a nearby resident complained saying students were out shooting paintball guns, then a district psychologist became concerned after seeing students playing violent video games and a student ruptured his spleen when he left campus with several other students during the day to ride motorbikes.

A spokesman for Blue Mountain school told Northwest News, they plan to appeal the decision and have hired a lawyer.