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Family Court experiment helps Waianae school fight absenteeism

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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

A student reports to Truancy Court, created last year by Family Court to handle cases out of Waianae Intermediate School, which had the worst chronic absenteeism rate among middle schools last year.

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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

Family Court Judge Lanson Kupau spoke with a girl in Truancy Court. “Waianae is a very special place to me, and I’m not going to just sit back and watch our kids fail,” Kupau told one family during recent proceedings.