Joseph Kelley, who lives in Washington, had been invited to explain the benefits of school choice, or vouchers, which had allowed him to take his four children out of a crime-ravaged public school and send them to the private Preparatory School of D.

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He persuaded two teachers from the school to take him on the four-hour trek. from the capital to the mines.

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Caroline Rawson, assistant director of Snap Cymru had a son with additional learning needs and was asked to take him out of his school during an inspection.

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Until our son was old enough to go to school, we had a full-time babysitter to take care of him downstairs while we worked upstairs.

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In high school, his father urged him to take up golf, even though the luxury came later in life for him.

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After he had already withdrawn from the school, the college sent him a letter informing him he would have to take a mental health exam if he were to return.

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On the morning of 17 October 1961, eighteen-year-old Mick Jagger (born 26 July 1943) was waiting on the platform of Dartford railway station for the train to take him the 16 miles into central London, where he was a mediocre student at the highly respected London School of Economics.

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