For many years, some students from Hayward’s Mt. Eden High School would cut class to go to a nearby convenience store. They would climb a chain-link fence surrounding the school and cross the street to the Rotten Robbie gas station’s store, where they would buy soda, chips and candy. No more.
This year, local police and Hayward Unified school officials went door to door and asked businesses to refuse to serve school-aged youths during school hours. If students persist in coming during the school day, merchants are given a phone number to call police, who take the truants back to school.
“The objective is not to arrest them,” said district Superintendent Stanley Dobbs. Instead, he said, “we provide services to make sure our students who have fallen get across the line.” The program is part of Dobbs’ campaign to engage the community in supporting its youngest citizens.
[For more of this story, written by Susan Frey, go to http://edsource.org/2014/haywa...y/69343#.VGFtvfnF-5V]
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