Stuber, a former police officer and founder of the Escape School, told CNN that even very young children might learn to resist and escape an abductor.
The cases underscore the need for parents to teach children how to avoid being seized, and to learn escape methods if they are, said Bob Stuber of the Texas-based Escape School, which runs educational programs across the United States.
"They should have notified all the parents, " said Grisalda Tavarez, whose 10th-grade daughter transferred to Williamsburg Charter High School to escape violence in her previous public school.
Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- Growing up, Cecilia Lopez hoped to escape poverty by finishing school and becoming a teacher.
They must work hard to escape poverty by going to school, do a good job at work and not be involved in crime.
Beijing is the great crucible of social reinvention, and every child learns that hard work at school is a potential escape route from poverty.
"For us, the only way to escape our economic status was through school, and that's what my mum always told us, " Pejic says.
Girls in school have an opportunity to escape early marriage and early motherhood, and to gain skills that give them enhanced economic and social opportunities.
Instead, they felt like they had nowhere to turn, as if they had no escape from taunting and bullying that made school something they feared.
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Many states and school districts who were clamoring for an escape from the law's requirements were relieved.
Michelle Knight, now 32 years old, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, have yet to speak publicly about their ordeal since Monday, when they were discovered at a Cleveland house owned by a former school-bus driver, following an escape by Ms. Berry and her 6-year-old daughter.
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Breakfast clubs and after-school activities also offer children a chance to escape from troubled home lives.
In fact, one of the things that first attracted me to the concept of school choice was the idea that perhaps students could escape the increasingly burgeoning testing apparatus.
As a senior in high school, I vowed to get out of Chicago, to escape the pain and tragedy.
Elementary school-age children were eating at some of the restaurants and no one was trying to escape, she said.
The school has also attached its name to local traditions, such as the Corporate Challenge arm of the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon.
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