These teens were missing too much school. Here's what it took to get them back

Sophomore Neomi sits quietly in an office at her high school in a Colorado mountain town west of Denver. It's a cold December morning and she's wearing gold and black Nikes and a gray hoodie, pulled up."I just wanna be really clear about the intention of this meeting. It's not to make you feel bad," says Dave, a school administrator."What's going on?" he asks Neomi.

When Dave points out that the teen hasn't been in school much since Thanksgiving, Neomi's mom speaks up to explain what her daughter has been going through. For Neomi, the hardest part of coming to school is running into students in the hallways and at lunchtime. With this key information, staffers get to work on some solutions that could help bring the teenager back.

They try to get Neomi to stay for the rest of the school day, but she says she isn't ready. Though she promises to come back on Monday, after the weekend.

But this year has been different. Her attendance is back up, and Anais has been working on her grades.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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