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Out of the county’s total 1976 graduating class, 27.4 per cent went on to college. Over half of the graduates, 57.1 per cent, found full-time employment and 11.9 per cent were unemployed.
Of the state total of graduates in 1976, 49.9 per cent enrolled in college, 27.5 per cent were employed fulltime and 3.7 per cent were unemployed.
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Teacher: “Tommy, your paper is exactly the same as Joey’s. Even the misspelled words are the same. How do you explain that?” Tommy: “I used his pencil.”
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