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The Boston Globe Observer column
2007
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(East Boston and Brighton are light years apart and yet, somehow, end up in the same school district. [John McLaughlin] has kids who make the hellish commute by T from Eastie to Brighton every day. What wizard dreamed up this scheme? ) Indeed. Five unexplained student absences triggers a card that is referred to the truancy team. More than 3,600 of them flooded the system last year. For five officers. You do the math. This gives triage new meaning. Plus, says McLaughlin, \"Quincy and Brockton call us asking if we can check on students who are coming up here to see if they're in school.\" McLaughlin scored the teaching hat trick in Boston over 25 years - - elementary, middle, and high school. During a three-year layoff in the '80s, he loaded mail at Logan and then carried mail in Hingham. He grew up in St. Gregory's Parish in Dorchester. He now lives in Weymouth -- \"Dorchester South,\" he says with a smile.
