Word: maisonet
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Kids who quit school don't just suddenly drop out; it's more of a slow fade. Typically it begins in the ninth grade, if not earlier, often when life hits a particularly nasty patch and racking up credits in class no longer seems especially compelling or plausible. Ernestine Maisonet started fading in eighth grade, when the grandmother who had raised her died. "She was a woman who worked wonders," murmurs Maisonet, who says she doesn't know her mother and isn't close to her dad. After the death, her family of six siblings fell apart. Maisonet has lived...
Against all odds, Maisonet and Garcia are slated to graduate in New York City's class of 2007. They are among some 13,000 students who dropped out or were on the verge of doing so but have been recovered in the public school system. The city's secret? Finding out who was dropping out and why and offering a variety of paths--complete with intensive social support and personalized instruction--back to school...
...recent afternoon, National Guard officer Hector Maisonet, who mans an entrance to the site on Church Street, showed visitors his emergency vest, signed by Tyra Banks and Jamie Lee Curtis. "People ask us if we get tired standing here all day," says Guardsman Miguel Latorre, 42. "I say, 'Yo, it's my job.'" With the last ruins of the Twin Towers removed for possible display in a future memorial, the dozens of camouflaged Guard members and police officers stationed there now serve as the attraction itself, like the guards at Buckingham Palace. Tourists take pictures with them, chat them...