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The Education Revolution

By Hernan Vera

source: Huffington Post

Wednesday August 15, 2012

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Despite being the valedictorian of her eighth grade class, Claudia was expelled from her high school as a freshman because of a fight with another student. She attended several other schools across town where she was suspended numerous times for being tardy and engaging in verbal fights with other students who teased her. Eventually she fell behind in her work and dropped out.

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