"The main reasons we decided to come here this winter was so that our eldest daughter could go to school and our youngest daughter could socialize with other kids her own age, " Brossier said.

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Indeed, girls' greater success in school could soon become one of those "unshakable" truths that we come to see as natural -- like women's longer lifespans.

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We assume the players have the same educational starting point of the players who were begged to come to the school.

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"We do all the things a school nurse used to do, but now instead of having to send a child to the ER or having Mom come and pick them up, we can treat them in the school-based health center, " says Chris Kjolhede, Bassett's school-based health program director.

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"All the officers on the team have been specially trained to deal with investigations of this nature and we would encourage people to come forward and speak with us if they were sexually abused while in care or at school in Lancashire, " he said.

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