Bob CollinsThe Duluth News Tribune says ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ will no longer be required reading in the curriculum because racial slurs are used in them.
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Here’s today’s daily dose of sweetness, but you’ll have to wait for it. Plastic bags make lousy blindfolds. It’s unlikely, of course, that any of the kids who used them as blindfolds during a game of musical chairs as part of the Detroit Lakes schools’ Snoball week were going to die of suffocation. But some Read more →
The Storm Lake Tornadoes went to Spencer, Iowa last Friday to play some basketball and were taunted with racist chants, a report says. It’s not the first time Storm Lake’s kids have heard them. They’re from one of Iowa’s few schools with a student body that’s mostly non-white.
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It’s pretty hard to learn auto repair when you’re a woman. Just ask the students at Bemidji High School, where a mixed-gender class is pretty much dominated by the guys. Auto repair? Girls? Please. You know how it goes. Read more →
The Lord loveth a cheerful plower. Read more →
The annual controversies surrounding yearbook photos are off to an early start this year with the school board in Crookston deciding to back away from a policy announced earlier this month that bans guns from yearbook photos. Read more →
Some children were still unable to get home from St. Paul schools last night as late as 11 p.m. The school district blamed the forecasts, which accurately predicted the storm. Read more →
It’s a rare day anymore when parents get a little credit for their behavior at the extracurricular events of their kids. So give it up for the parents of the kids at Miles River Middle School in Hamilton, Mass., where a power outage threatened to curtail the winter musical performance of ‘James and the Giant Peach.’ Read more →
Students from Franklin Middle School in Minneapolis, and their teacher, Michael Bratsch, are prepared for the onslaught of ‘It’s cold, why do you live here?’ questions expected in the coming weeks. Read more →
Scott Stanfield sometimes dealt with some of society’s worst when he worked as a cop. But being a boys basketball coach and dealing with some parents is “way worse,” he tells the Brainerd Dispatch. Read more →
Julia Nepper went to college when she was 12 years old because her parents looked at the education she was getting and didn’t like it.
She just got her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Read more →
Not much can make a person feel better about the future than seeing a fifth-grader tear up at the story of injustice.
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It seems pretty clear now we’re in a no-school-announcement arms race. Read more →
At Union Pointe Academy, in Florence, Ky., Principal Chad Caddell announced the school closing on Monday by sending students a video, using his inner Mariah Carey. Read more →
Here’s 36 minutes of a drumline showdown between the kids of Rochester’s Century High School, John Marshall High School, and Mayo High School who spent their night on Wednesday beating drums to raise money for each school’s charity. Read more →