When DROPOUT isn’t a bad word: Some local teens are thriving by setting their own schedules and learning by doing
BevK December 9th, 2006
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Anna Finklestein left Sharon High School after the ninth grade because she was bored and felt she could put her time to better use. She started a professional theater company for young adults, interned at Boston?s Huntington Theater and took college courses at the Harvard Extension School. This year, she got a part-time job at Ward?s Berry Farm. At 16, she spends her spare time thinking up future projects and how to accomplish them - like starting a coffee shop, a homeless shelter or a baby-sitting service. "I’m unschooled. I basically control what I do," said Finklestein, whose second theater production ,"The Laramie Project," closes this weekend.
