By Linda Hou, Miami 2007
Originally published in The Central High Times.
The many students who returned to Central after dropping out came back with different reasons and motives.
For sophomore Laura Franklin, coming back was what she always wanted.
“I never really wanted to dropout. It was my only alternative,” Franklin said. Franklin dropped out of Hillcrest last year because she and her friend Kelsey felt threatened by another group of students.
“They were threatening and calling us names,” Franklin said, “The day we dropped out, some girl punched …[Kelsey], and the teacher didn’t do anything about it.”
