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Music helps put at-risk Lake Worth student on right track.
Byline: Rhonda J. Miller
Nov. 27--Lateema Phillips was angry.
She cursed at teachers. She stormed out of her classrooms at South Grade Elementary School in Lake Worth.
"School wasn't very good for me, because kids picked on me. They talked about me and I would get mad," said Lateema, now 12, and a sixth-grader at Bak Middle School of the Arts.
Her response to the ridicule put her well on the path to destroying her education and her future by the time she was in fourth grade.
"Lateema was a challenge," said Goldie Stopek, assistant principal at South Grade Elementary. "She was one of the kids who could have slipped through the cracks."
But music has channeled Lateema's rage.
Teachers, administrators and guidance counselors are always seeking a way to direct students away from trouble at South Grade, where 95 percent of students qualify for free- and reduced-price breakfast and lunch.…
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