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| | Md. schools taking truant teens to court - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com |
 | | Two truant teenagers from Wicomico County on the lower Eastern Shore, one of whom had seen the inside of a classroom only one day this school year, reported to court this week as the first defendants in a pilot program that will hold students directly responsible for finding their way to class every day. |
 | | Students found to be truant may be ordered into counseling or testing, ordered to keep a curfew, confined to home, even commanded to take a drug test on the spot. |
 | | The two students taken to court this week, ages 14 and 15, were found to be truant; Bruce Wade, a master who heard the cases Monday, ordered assessments and told the teenagers to return to court Jan. 24 for further instructions. |
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