Whereas I was going off and working, abandoning school life for months at a time.
Republicans accused him of abandoning school vouchers and Social Security privatization -- though he says he had already written off privatization as a bad idea and simply stopped talking about vouchers during the campaign because Mr. Gore opposed them.
Another indicator that may affect the decision of abandoning school is the perception of the opportunities given by the labour market.
As the virus spread, and people abandoned schools and farms, the risk of famine grew.
The distressing facts about Detroit are by now almost a cliché: 40 percent of streetlights were not working this spring, tens of thousands of buildings are abandoned, schools have closed and the population declined 25 percent in the last decade alone.
In any case, poor neighborhoods here and elsewhere around the country welcome the arrival of military units that repair old, nearly abandoned schools or build new ones equipped with computers and television sets.
In 2013, the district put 79 abandoned schools up for sale.
The collective often wore costumes and carried instruments to improvise performances at unlikely locales like freeway underpasses or abandoned schools. .
With its boarded-up houses, abandoned schools, declining public services and shrinking population, it had become the country's most depressing city.
