Tumultuous home lives.
But when dropouts look for a better job or a promotion, they find they just don' t have what it takes. That' s when many dropouts make that all-important phone call to get back into school, she said. It' s not a rigid pattern. Babies, it seems, are more a part of her family' s teen-age years than high school diplomas. Claudia said her education was derailed when she was 13.