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| US: Graduation Is the goal, staying |
| US: Graduation Is the goal, staying alive the prize
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 2-July-2010
0:59:9 AM |
| The bonding moment between Veronica Tinajero and the student she calls Big Sunshine came during one of their first meetings.
"Have you ever been shot?" the student, a high school senior, asked. When Ms. Tinajero replied no, he looked genuinely amazed and said, "Wow, almost everybody I know has been shot." Later, he ticked off a list of his own bullet wounds, upper thigh, left hand, and scalp.
"I should have been dead already," he said.
With that, Ms. Tinajero, 24 and a public schools employee, gained a fuller understanding of what she was up against. A professional advocate, she is in Big Sunshine's life for two reasons. To help keep him alive and on track to graduation, and now college. She is part of an ambitious but untested project born of crisis, a project that may take on added significance after a Supreme Court ruling on Monday that appeared to doom Chicago's ban on handguns
Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/us-graduation-is-the-goal-staying-alive-the-prize-35035?cp
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