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Calif. school chases chronic dropouts
- 08-10-2010
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By Christina Hoag/Jackson Sun
School has long since started for the day when Jose Ramirez pulls up to a small bungalow and yells out to a tardy student. Anthony Gonzalez limps to the door, shirtless with a head of bed-tousled hair. "It's after nine, man, you got to be in school," Ramirez tells the 19-year-old, who dropped out of school after a gang shooting four years ago left him paralyzed on one side. Ramirez helps pull a T-shirt over Gonzale's frozen arm and playfully scolds him. "I got to dress you, too, sleeping beauty? The day you graduate I'm going to let you sleep in." (more....)
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