Education
Jan. 6, 2006
Becoming Their Own Counselors
LOS ANGELES - The assignment was to write about Christmas. But the response was anything but jovial. "I ain't goin' be here Christmas," Ashley, a hefty light-skinned 17-year-old African-American girl, her hair in cornrows, announced. "I'm leaving on the 21st."




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