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Why aren't these youngsters in school? Meeting Canada's Charter obligations to disadvantaged adolescents

Why aren't these youngsters in school? Meeting Canada's Charter obligations to disadvantaged... 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 Ž 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, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Children's Rights Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0927-5568
eISSN
1571-8182
DOI
10.1163/157181802772758100
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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 Ž 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,

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The International Journal of Children's RightsBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2002

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