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Education
I'm finally getting around to finding a place to do the "disadvantaged youth" aspect of my project, and today I went to the school - a special academy sort of last chance for troubled kids - to meet with a man who was going to tell me a bit about tutoring and whatnot. Except a kid was sick, so he and I ended up taking him to the emergency room and sitting there for a few hours waiting for him. We talked about a lot of stuff - the guy's been in education for years and had some really sad stories about kids whose parents didn't care about them, dysfunctional families, abuse...a kid who committed suicide, another who ended up stabbing an elderly neighbor in the face 41 times. Sad stuff. The kid we took to the hospital was pretty much homeless, and his mom had died the previous year.
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