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During the spring semester at Goodrich Middle School, two developmentally delayed students began to participate in the CLC programs. The 6th and 7th grade students actually functioned at 2nd and 3rd grade levels. After their father was sent to jail, they were sent to live with their aunt. This is when they joined Homework Club and Game Room after school. They stayed until 5:15 everyday at Goodrich. In Homework Club, the teachers put together a homework folder enabling the kids to have an exact assignment everyday. When the two first started coming they were very shy and didn’t socialize with many of the other students. By May, they were doing homework, playing card games, and even playing basketball with the other students in Homework Club and Game Room. With a few weeks left of school they were sent to live in a group home, however, because the after school programs were so beneficial to them, they continued to participate through the end of the year. Watching the development that these two students went through was amazing; you could see a difference in the way they looked at school and at other students.