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Article: Should I Stay or Should I Go?(dropping out of school)(Louisiana, West Virginia)(Statistical Data Included)
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- State Legislatures
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Getting kids to stay in school is tough. But Louisiana thinks it has an idea that's working.
Representative Noble Ellington was out campaigning for a state Senate seat in his rural northeastern Louisiana district one fall day in 1996. He was walking door-to-door and getting reacquainted with his constituents. As he approached one house, he noticed several young men lifting weights in the carport. Realizing that they probably should have been in school, he sat down to talk to them and soon learned that they had dropped out of high school. Instead of attending classes, they were doing seasonal work for farmers and other types of short-term jobs.
Curious as ...