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| Educators try to correct truancy |
| By Boston.com |
| Published: 09/26/2008 |
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MASSACHUSETTS - At about 1 p.m., a half-dozen teenagers in jeans and sneakers walked into an enormous, red-brick building surrounded by a barbed wire fence. They smiled and waved at corrections officers guarding the front door, walked through a metal detector, and headed to meet employment specialists or take classes in politics, English literature, or computer science. They are sent here because they habitually skip school or have dropped out. But once they walk through these doors, they cannot leave until they have finished their classes. They are each assigned a caseworker who knows their academic record, medical history, and whether they are having troubles at home. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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