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Originally Posted by mylesmalley
Nice find!
Gotta say I'm appalled that 92 kids dropped out from grades 7 to 9 in 2012 alone though.
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Somewhat related, I remember a few years back a story ran in the Western Star here that talked about a student graduating from high school in Corner Brook. He was the first person to graduate from the neighbourhood of Dunfield Park in something like 5 years. It's a low income neighbourhood, mostly public housing, painted up bright colours because those are the cheapest paints and giving it the name "Jellybean Square", not to be confused with the tourist attraction in St. John's.
There are lots of kids, probably more per capita than any other neighbourhood in the city (town) but the people generally have no value attached to education.