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POSTSCRIPT In 1994, I wrote to the principal at Alternative High School to follow up on the girls with whom I had not remained in contact to find out what had happened to them educationally. Of the thirty girls in the study, over one-half (sixteen) graduated from Alternative High School, all of them graduating in 1992. (One young woman of Colombian descent graduated a year earlier as class valedictorian.) The young women in the study who graduated from A.H.S. were: Terry, Cymhia, Laura. Jeanette, Beth, Debbie, Saundria. Barbara, Anglea, Delores, Aurea, Antonia, Ana, Carolina, Paula, and Marlissa. Four girls transferred before graduation to their neighborhood schools or moved from the New York area and it is unknown if they completed high school Uackie, Gloria, Mana, and Magda); five mhers transferred to local area G.E.D. (General Education Development) programs and i[ is also unknown if they entered their programs or passed the G.E.D. (Doreen, Clarice, Lucy, Maria, and Marisol); and five young women were discharged from A.H.S. for being over seventeen years old and unable to complete required classes or New York State standardized exams (Linda, Kerry, Marta, Cheryl, and Marissa). After a visit to the school in 1997, counselors informed me that [he following girls had attended college: Antonia, Toni, Carolina, Saundria, Barbara, and Terry. Others may have also attended college, but at the time it could nm be ascertained. 211 ...

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