13-Year-Old Kills Himself In 20+ Floor Jump From Bronx Apartment

clipped from gothamist.com 13-Year-Old Kills Himself In 20+ Floor Jump From Bronx Apartment An aunt told the News, “He was a brilliant boy. He was a good basketball player, too.” The family said that “Juda had a problem yesterday in an after-school academic program at Our Lady of Angels school on Sedgwick Ave. that got him sent home early for not paying attention.” When he got home, the teen wanted to play basketball but his mother told him he had to eat before. The aunt said, “She went to the kitchen to get her son food when she heard a noise from the balcony and he wasn’t there anymore.” Tracey Towers (photo from the Bridge & Tunnel Club) Yesterday afternoon, a 13-year-old jumped to his death from his family’s apartment terrace at the Tracey Towers on Mosholu Parkway. The Daily News reports that Juda Agyemang “was sent home from school for not paying attention” (according to family members) while the Post says he had been “pulled from his school’s basketball team because of poor grades.”

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Read it and weep: New York State is worst in U.S. in awarding GEDs

clipped from www.nydailynews.com Read it and weep: New York State is worst in U.S. in awarding GEDs BY Meredith Kolodner DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER New York has the nation’s worst GED pass rate, falling below even Alabama and Mississippi – and it’s the city that’s dragging the state down. Although 1.6 million city residents older than 16 are not in school and lack a high school diploma, only 28,000 took the high school equivalency test last year to get a General Equivalency Diploma. Just half of the test-takers passed. Statewide, just 60% test-takers passed – making New York’s pass rate dead last, the American Council on Education says. Handschuh/News GED student Lefret Joinville gets help from teacher Tina Painter at The Door agency on Broome St.