RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.
This morning, a high school in Fall River, Massachusetts is kicking off a strategy to get more of its chronically tardy and absent students there on time. Every day, the students with the worst attendance records will get a prerecorded wake-up call from the principal. This school isn't the first to use robocalls to fight truancy. In New York the calls feature the voice of former basketball star Magic Johnson. That'll wake them up. He's from Los Angeles.
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