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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
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By Aydan Corkern
 If you are like most people, you just don't realize how many kids today drop out of school. I, for one, didn't think that this was still such a big problem, mainly because I have been out of school for so many years. In my day, most of the kids that ever dropped out were because of some girls having babies too young and the schools not letting them finish their schooling or the boys just leaving school to go into the service of this country.
At this time, the boys could just quit school and enlist in any of the armed forces and no one thought badly of them. But in this day in age, you have to have this diploma to be able to get almost any kind of job even if it is washing dishes. Our schools are supposed to be keeping track of all of their dropout rates, and these findings are to be turned into the state's school boards and their funding are basic on these findings. But most of these schools found loopholes in their system so |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
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By Greg Writer
 As thousands of students are looking forward to the launch of their next school year - new school supplies, readying that new outfit or new uniform shirt, or just getting together with friends to embark on yet another scholastic roller coaster. There are many others, however, who look upon the beginning of school with trepidation.
They are the new kids, the shy kids, the kids who would rather be anyplace else but in school. Why? The reasons take on a myriad of variations, many grounded in plain old "coming of age" angst or the "end of summer" depression, but within this group there are some kids who are in a class all by themselves. These are the kids who, as a result of embarrassment, shame, or fear, have either been, or fear that they will be harmed by their peers, or worse yet, by themselves because they believe they are alone and "the problem" is to big for them or anyone to handle.
At first blush, you may be thinking I'm talking about "in the hood" gang crime. It's nothing that |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 November 2008 )
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