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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Caring adults can help prevent teens from dropping out | Julia Steiny | projo.com | The Providence Journal

Caring adults can help prevent teens from dropping out Julia Steiny projo.com The Providence Journal: "“I am a high-school dropout myself.”
Tim Gardiner sits in the teachers lounge of the very school he left in 1977, when it was Bristol High. Now the school is known as Mt. Hope High in the Bristol Warren district, and Gardiner teaches plumbing in its industrial-technology program.
“In the middle of my junior year, I dropped"