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Affluent county has the highest use of portables

 
Published Nov. 6, 1997|Updated Oct. 2, 2005

Inside a sprawling maintenance shelter at Clay High School, the kids slouch in their seats in Reggie Heath's beginning carpentry class.

Heath gets them in gear and outside for the class assignment: building a portable classroom for the Clay County school system.

"This is the main reason they come to school," said Heath of his charges, many of whom are on the edge of dropping out.

Heath gives these teenagers a way to make a living with their hands.

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