I Thing this quote friends (close ones) death have big impact on child education and loss Confidence dropping out school


late on Tuesday afternoon,a nineteen-year-old girl who has been helping mother Martha in the office told me that she went to Morris high school until dropping out about three years ago after a friend of hers was murdered while he walked across a playground near the school. She showed me a memorial card that had been printed for his funeral.The boy's name was Roberto. Sh"d been close to him, she said,and sat beside him in an English class After his death, she had decided to leave school