Texas- Diane 17 ans, une nuit de taule pour avoir manqué l’école, elle occupe 2 emplois pour nourrir ses frères et sœurs
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Last week, the country was riveted by the story of young Diane Tran, a high school junior age 17, who was tossed in jail for a night because she was missing too much school.
The reason her case attracted so much attention? Tran missed those days of school—or arrived late—due to exhaustion. She worked two jobs to help support her siblings. Her parents had split and moved out of town. She became, in essence, a poster-girl for both the recession and for the criminalization of youth. Even those local newscasters expected to be dispassionate were moved to say their “hearts went out” to this girl