
Cause see, my locker is on the second floor in the new building. Well, it seems that when I come in his class, he look at me like he hates my guts. Now we're going to dump on teachers, right? Okey dokey. So what they try their little games with me here, I know exactly what's going on, and I tell them, "Listen, don't even try." Why did you choose not to do the homework when you knew that the teacher was asking you to try? Cause I had better things to do. Kids need to know that you're a person and they know that I'm a mother of two children and that I've had many experiences like they had. And I'm the best friend that you'll have here at Cooley during this class program. Deal with Patricia Holmes as Patricia Holmes is, because I'm like no one else you've met. Well, when Miss So-and-so taught it, I never got a good grade on it. Everything I will give you will be things that you can't do. When you deal with the assignments that I'm going to give you, it's expected that you're going to try everyday to the very best that you can. And these kids are in trouble from the very onset of high school education. The students in DAIC are students who have spent the first part of their year in high school skipping classes, deciding which classes These children are unique because they have special problems. OK, well, we're gonna change that picture. And we know Paula was absent thirty-six times. What brought you here? One class that you cut all the time or many? All of them. Tell me something, you know, I can get a mental picture of it. How bad was your attendance, Sonny? Poor. Welcome to DAIC, which stands for the Detroit Attendance Intervention Center. As we go on in school, we are going to have to realize that we are losing kids, we are losing them, and we're going to have to do something else.īut in life you can usually start nothing and end with nothing. We're going to put you in program so we can string you out." Love it.

Until they said, "Hey, Rashan, you're doing the wrong thing.


Thought it has like stay home and just be here. I was feeling like, you know, this is not worth the school anymore. All my brothers have dropped out, you know. It had interest in me but I just don't feel like going. How many times have you skipped? About six weeks. Sidewalk high is a dropout living at home, not doing anything.
