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[Real Reality]

Grim discovery by teacher
Boy lived with dead mother for months

A 15-year-old boy who had been missing from school for months was found living alone with the body of his dead mother in a vacant house. Since the boy was absent from school for months, his teachers attempted to visit him, but reportedly had a hard time locating his home as the address listed in the school's records was wrong. The boy and his mother reportedly had moved frequently. Last month, when teachers finally located him, the boy lied to them, saying that his mother had left home, the teachers said. After finding the boy, the teachers have helped him in various ways, giving him food and other items.

Some observers, apparently shocked by the case, yesterday denounced the school and teachers, saying that they had been negligent toward the boy.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200312/06/200312060053024909900090409041.html

What about the neighbors, relatives, and friends?

[Hank Scorpio]

[Real Reality]

Home visits are to be made regularly, but only if the parents are agreeable in order to maintain learning experience for the special needs child.
http://www.fort-frances.com/jobs/index.php/254

Koreans are very close to each other. Strangers call other strangers, and are called by strangers, as close relatives in the street and train stations. When I ask information on the departure schedule from the train master, I call him Ajossi, uncle. An Ajossi is supposed to refer to one�s father�s brother, but it is most used in reference to a man older than I am. Ajumoni, is supposed to refer to one�s fathers sister. Any woman older than I am I call an Ajumoni.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200211/kt2002112118240811320.htm

Calgary man found dead in home after 3 months
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1037417639408_10/?hub=Canada

Tim found home visits to have a positive impact on parent participation. For example, after visiting all 19 of his first-graders' homes during the first few weeks of school last year, he reports that every child in his classroom had a parent or guardian show up at the school Open House.

The article notes that many schools have people specifically hired to make contact with families (such as social workers). It is noted, however, that visits from family liaisons do not replace those from principals and teachers. Instead, the schools that are most likely to benefit from such workers are also the schools that would most likely benefit from the extra outreach of faculty.
http://npin.org/pnews/1997/pnewd97/pnewd97h.html

[batman]

re: "Koreans are very close to each other. "
Thanks for the morning laugh.
Truly, I enjoyed that one.
Back to the topic at hand though, there was a story in the Star a while ago about a woman who was dead for 8 years yet her relatives only recently noticed her missing.
"Police found the elderly pensioner's remains after a Mississauga relative called them Friday to check on Vasil.
The woman hadn't seen Vasil since 1995."
Couldn't imagine this scenerio.

[khyber]