Border violence scaring kids, parents from schools | school, schools, drug - Life - TheMonitor.com: "The empty desks outnumber the students at Luis Urias Elementary School in Juarez, Mexico these days, a stark measure of the fear that hangs over this border city.
In a classroom usually filled with 40 fourth-graders, a single child bent over a worksheet on a recent afternoon. The class next door had 36 students absent and only two present.
In all, parents are keeping about 90 percent of the school's children at home because of a spate of kidnapping threats, Principal Berta Rodriguez said - a sign that a wave of violence in Mexico is seeping into one of the country's last refuges: its schools."
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