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The International Journal of Children’s Rights 10: 1–37, 2002. © 2002 Kluwer Law International. Printed in the Netherlands. 1 Why aren’t these youngsters in school? Meeting Canada’s Charter obligations to disadvantaged adolescents SONJA GROVER Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 1. Compulsory secondary school completion as a protective factor for youth 1.1. The Canadian and international context We Canadians hear the international numbers and are generally self- righteously appalled; one hundred twenty million children (18 and under) out of school world- wide, and more than one million children, mostly girls, forced into prostitution each year; many in an effort to survive on the streets (Annan, 2001). These are children suffering a wide range of psycholog- ical and physical problems correlated in large part both with their being school drop-outs (or persons denied access to basic schooling in the rst instance), and their status as street children. Yet, in Canada also there remains a tremendous need for government to much more vigorously address the issue of youth at-risk of school drop-out and the connection of school drop-out to the phenomenon of street children. In Canada, much, if not most of the work with street youth,
The International Journal of Children's Rights – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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