April 13, 2008 in City

Seeking alternatives

Shawn Vestal Staff writer

Dan Sweetland talks last month about how he ended up at Contract-Based Education.
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Dan Sweetland moved from his parents’ home – and the violence and drug use there – when he was 5.

After a year at his grandmother’s, he lived with an aunt until he was 12, then returned to his father’s.

“That’s when I started getting into trouble,” says Sweetland.

He used drugs and piled up criminal convictions: Burglary, criminal mischief, trespass. At 15, he spent a year at a juvenile rehabilitation center in Centralia.

School was the last thing on his mind.

Three years later, Sweetland is trying to add something new to his record: high school graduate.

At 18, he’s about …

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