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Knowledge is Power!
For Robert Rivas, the wake-up call came five years ago, when he learned at a meeting of educators and civic leaders that more than half of North County’s Latino boys were dropping out of high school.
Rivas, 59, an operations manager at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside and the father of four girls, said he was surprised and shocked by the statistic.
“I didn’t think it was that bad. That’s bad, that’s nasty. No society can survive that,” Rivas said of his reaction.”*
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