When a 10th-grade student at the New School For Enterprise and Development missed two weeks of classes last fall, it was Tom Blagburn’s job to investigate.

He called the boy’s house a half-dozen times. Finally, he knocked on his door in Atlantic Terrace, in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Anacostia. The boy’s father cracked the door. Blagburn identified himself as the New School’s head of security.

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