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by Rita Best, EdD A few years into my dropout-recovery work, I stopped being surprised by how the conversations started. An adult, twenty-some years old, sitting across from me, working toward the diploma they never finished. I'd ask when things first went wrong. Almost never high school. Almost never even 8th grade. Sixth grade, seventh grade — over and over, the same two years, showing up in story after story like a fault line nobody had mapped. What surprised me more was w