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Byline: Peter Smolowitz
Oct. 18--Resie McCauley's daughter was getting ready to graduate from high school. McCauley had always emphasized the importance of school to her six children. But as they gathered for a celebratory cookout, she had a confession.
I got pregnant when I was a junior in high school. I dropped out
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"They were shocked," McCauley, 33, recalled Tuesday.
But soon she told them she was enrolling in a new program at Highland Renaissance Academy, where her two youngest attend elementary school. She was going to try earning her high school equivalency diploma.
"It was time," she said as she arrived at the…