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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you recall the NYT feature on Dasani, a promising student whose family was living in a homeless shelter in Brooklyn . . . the follow-up was about her experience at The Milton Hershey School. Unfortunately, it wasn't a fit for her, mostly because of pressure from her family to return home. The article offers some insight into the school and how its mission, and the journalist also has written a book about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/magazine/dasani-invisible-child.html
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And for those questioning the young age of some of the students, this paragraph may offer some insight:

[i]Every year, an unknown number of students leave Hershey. The school’s administrators would not disclose its average graduation rate but said that in 2015 — the year that Dasani enrolled — around one in 10 children was either expelled or dropped out. For those who graduate, success in college seems correlated with the age at which they entered Hershey. Sixty-one percent of students who enroll before age 10 complete a postsecondary degree, compared with only 51 percent of students who entered Hershey during high school.[/I]

These are children who have experienced homelessness, hunger, and violence. Being placed in a safe, stable, and nurturing environment at a younger age understandably lends to better outcomes. [/quote]

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