If what we're doing seeds a young person so that person can establish his or her roots in the community, then we've had an amazing success.

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We clearly don't want to send the message in this program that we don't want people to go to college or that this is a substitute for college.

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There is a percentage of kids who don't go on to college for a variety of reasons. And the irony is that, often, those are the kids that are staying in the community and not going away.

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