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    • « Dallas Drop Out Rate | Home | Reasons for dropping out »

    By kcortez | April 1, 2009

    Hello all,

    I have been working with the lower elementary students for most of my career and have just recently switched to working with at risk high schoolers. I say high risk but what I mean is “gang affiliated, on parole” students. I work for a company that is these students/gang members last ditch effort for reform and  not incarceration until they are 21 or so. Many of them are so far behind in their education they don’t feel the need to even try. Many of them are so intimidating, by their looks, the system just wants them gone. I am just getting started and hoped this class could give me some good insight. I too, was a high school drop out and it wasn’t until I was in my thirtys that I receieved a GED and went on to higher education. I do realize the importance of and want to keep these students in school for their good and ours.

    thanks for having me,

    katherine

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