One Student Tries To Help Others Escape A 'Corridor Of Shame'

Just across the train tracks from U.S. Route 321, in the town of North, S.C., nestled among mobile homes covered with red roses, sits the one-story brick campus of North Middle/High School.

Robert Gordon strides forward in the school's entryway to shake my hand. He's slim, dressed neatly in khakis, loafers and a striped polo shirt, with a pleather portfolio under one arm. "It's been a stressful morning," he says, explaining that one middle school boy stabbed another with a pencil....
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