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Article: For Many City Students, a Turn for the Worse; Council's Cancellation of Academic Coaching Program Leaves Thousands at Risk
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- The Washington Post
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- March 6, 1995
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Sometimes when Joseph Gordon isn't thinking, he finds himself
trying to open the locked door to an empty Turning Points office in
his school. He then peeps through a window in the door to see whether
it's true that the counselors who were helping him improve his grades
really aren't coming back.
"I just want to go in and say, `Hi,' but everybody is gone," said
Gordon, 16, a ninth-grade student at Douglass Junior High School in
Southeast Washington. "I used to have F's. I didn't use to come to
school, and when I came, I would fight. They started pulling me to
the side and saying what you do now reflects on what you do later in
life. Now I make A's, B's and C's."
Turning Points, a program ...