FL FL - Arahsette Rodriguez, 13, Miami Gardens, 20 Nov 2015

Jan Mann Opportunity School is a small educational setting that includes approximately 100 students of multi-ethnic,
and low and middle economic backgrounds that are administratively assigned due to various
problematic conditions within the traditional school. Students who attend Jan Mann Opportunity School are in
Grades 6-12 and reside in the northern half of the county. In conjunction with an emphasis on academic
achievement, another objective of Jan Mann Opportunity School is to change the negative behaviors and attitudes
of the disruptive, disinterested, and truant students and to provide the necessary support and enrichment to
meet each student's individual needs.

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CosmicLatte said:

Ten days ago? Why are we only hearing about this now? Or is this just the first article a WSer has noticed? :/ Oh well, let's get to sleuthing..

ETA: The school name looked a little strange to me so I looked it up, and guess what?



per http://janmann.dadeschools.net/about_us.html

As much as I hate labeling missing kids as "runaways", to me this looks like an environment she may not have been happy being placed in. Therefore I'd start looking at things like whether she could reach her home from here - could she have tried to leave and make her way home? Or to a relative's or friend's house? Maybe she felt unsafe there and wanted to get away. Just throwing out ideas.

ETAA: Uh-oh.. school is equidistant from both water and what looks like a busy freeway. Though I can point out with some relief that the fencing between the path she'd be on if heading to the water and the water itself looks like it'd be enough to keep a 13-year-old from climbing over.

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