Word: dropout
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...support. For example, volunteer students from Stuyvesant High School tutored inner-city, minority junior high students to prepare them for the Stuyvesant exam. The Board of Education and concerned students did not seek superficial remedies like racial quotas; we focused on the core of the problem, like high dropout rates, apathy to education, and low self-esteem, and we saw dramatic results...
Schneider was useful to Koresh, a ninth-grade dropout, vetting his theology and advising him on finances. The relationship was not one of equals, however. In 1989 Judy was one of Koresh's first new "wives." Schneider was reportedly appalled. When Judy had a daughter rumored to be Koresh's, Steve wrote home saying the baby...
...will a ninth-grade dropout who plainly relishes the glare of world publicity relinquish it all to lead his followers into prison? "Koresh is blowing smoke," says Wayman Mullins, a criminal-justice professor and hostage-negotiations trainer at Southwest Texas State University. "It's notoriety and grandstanding...
...justified the abuse. Although he is not on trial -- his assailants are -- the core question is if he was scary or erratic enough to legitimize almost any level of force. At the first trial, prosecutors chose not to put him on the stand. He is a high school dropout. He has a criminal record. He was drinking that night. His memory is hazy, whether because of alcohol or injury. He has changed his story more than once. And he is a large black man in a nation often frightened of black...
...Katherine, moving into the 14th and U area would have been a step up. A 10th-grade dropout with four children and no husband, she lived in a nearby but more crime-ridden neighborhood. She was waiting tables at a restaurant on Seventh Street, in a busy black commercial section, when she heard about the trouble at 14th and U. A glance at the street confirmed that the violence had already spread. People were breaking windows, and flames leaped from a building not far away. Shaking with fear, Katherine raced to her apartment, where she was horrified to discover that...