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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Stu
dents who cut class at Miriam Waltz
er’s school could end up behind
bars.
“The choice is dear — learn or go
to jail," said Waltzer, a criminal court
I judge who got tired of seeing young
■defendants who couldn't read the le
gal paperwork in front ot them.
Her solution turn her courtroom
into a classroom.
“What 1 noticed was that the de
fendants got younger and younger
and less and less educated,” the
judge said. "1 realized that 1 had the
power to put them on probation and
1 make education part ol the terms ot
I that probation."
Since most had been expelled
from school, she couldn’t send them
back there.
I So Waltzer started what she calls
Hflll the Probation Education Program
with classes in her courtroom run by
volunteer tutors. The program,
which she supervises, started in May
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and now has an enrollment ot two
dozen students ages 17 to 27.
Before the students tackle their
first assignment, each is tested to de
termine how much he or she knows
“Most ot these people chopped
out of school in about the ninth
grade, but what we’ve found is that
most of them are on a second or
third grade level academicalh .
Waltzei said
Once class starts, die rules arc-
simple: Study and don't cut class
One unexcused absence means a
weekend in jail, two and the student
is off probation and in prison. l or
those who stay out of trouble, the
five years’ probation ends as soon as
the student earns a high school di
ploma.
“It’s tough, that lady doesn't let
you slip up,” said Charles Carter, 26,
who has been a student in the pro
gram from the beginning. “Some
times you’ve been working and
you're tired and you don’t want to
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though. I like the reading, anyvvav 1
don't like the division and English,
but I'm learning it too.
Carter, convic ted of drug posses
sion, said he hopes to get his di
ploma this spring and enter barber
school.
Roosevelt Thomas, 21; convicted
of carrying a concealed weapon said
he would like to go to college and
perhaps become a lawyer
“That’s what my mama wanted
me to he,” he said. “1 got a lot ot
court experience already.'
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8 years later
BANCROFT, Wis. (AP) — Alter
eight yeat's of unknown adventures,
Clem the cat returned to its original
owners.
“I heard some meowing out on
the front porch last Friday,” Kurt
Helminiak said. “When I opened the
door, there stood a big, long-haired,
gray male cat.
“He walked into the house,
checked it out for a few minutes,
then he purred and jumped up onto
his favorite chair like he had never
been gone.”
Helminiak said his family were in
credulous at first, but he and his
wife, Julie, compared the cat to pic
tures they had taken eight years ear
lier and confirmed Clem had come
home.
“I let him out one cold night,
when it was about 20 below zero, and
snowing and blowing, and he never
came back,” he said.
The family searched for Clem
throughout the neighborhood and
listed him as a missing cat with the
Humane Society. They also put up
posters in stores, but the cat was
never found.
Clem is healthy, though a bit
mangier. Another difference is that
Clem is now f declawed, an indication
that someone had taken care of it at
least part of the time, Helminiak
said.
“He’s so glad to be home that he
won't even go outside now,” he said.
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