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Sep 5, 2006

PUSH TO WIN BACK DROPOUTS

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By Amanda Paulson

Christian Science Monitor

RANTOUL, ILL. – Chris Ahnert left high school because he figured he didn’t have the credits to graduate, anyway.

Aziz Animashan left after he got kicked off the basketball team - the only thing keeping him there.

Stacy Del Real didn’t want to go back to the same environment where, she says, “there were bad things happening all around me.”

All three are now trying once again, at an intensive live-in program in downstate Illinois.
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