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David Morales, a truant officer for Billings School District 2 and a recovering addict, deals with the meth problem too often in the form of 10- and 11-year-olds either on the drug or suffering abuse at the hands of spun-out relatives. "I call them the ghost children," he says. "I see them all the time...
...their opening statements, the candidates emphasized their achievements and used the opportunity to highlight what many said was a sense that Thompson--a part-time Pforzheimer House security guard and part-time school truant officer--had not represented Cambridge to the best of his ability in his 10 years of service...
...ensure safe neighborhoods by extending President Clinton's six-year plan to put 100,000 cops on U.S. streets and giving communities four extra years of government funding before they must pay the new salaries on their own. McGovern's plan also includes funding for full-time truant officers and a ban on "cop-killer" bullets. To help the children of the Third, he vows to make all schools computer-friendly...
Liston acquitted himself much more convincingly in the debates than Fine, but he was responsible for a spate of misconduct during his terms as vice-president last year. Liston showed incompetence in keeping up with the duties of his job, including the expulsion of truant council members...
...unloads at the "catchment center," where the truants will fill out forms and be instructed to return to school (most do, since each one's principal is telephoned). As the kids wait to be processed, a squad of ROTC students in crisp blue uniforms marches by in formation. One truant stares, wide-eyed. "What's that?" She cringes. "That's what they're going to do to you," someone tells her. "No way!" she cries. She's right...