A year ago, when Willmar, Minn., was sending layoff notices to all non-tenured teachers, I asked those in the profession, ‘why do you bother?’
It’s a good time to ask the same question because this afternoon, the school board is likely to do the same thing. Read more →
It’s not a Pi Day (3.14) without a video from mathematician Vi Hart, who just hates Pi Day. Read more →
March is high-school tournament time in Minnesota, as you probably know. It’s a time when most of the attention around here will go to the metro-area public and private sports dynasties. Good for them and good luck to them.
But there’s always at least one team that’s a little easier to root for. Read more →
Say what you will for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and the overblown Deflategate scandal in which Brady was accused of letting air out of footballs, but it apparently is doing wonders for inspiring kids into science. Read more →
Natasha Fuller, an Oakfield, Wis., first-grader, has been sick almost since she was born. For the last two years, she’s been living with her grandparents so she can get lifesaving treatment at Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee.
She’s currently in renal failure and the girl is out of options; she needs a kidney transplant.
Fortunately, the world is full of first-grade teachers like Jodi Schmidt. Read more →
A Minnesota school district is considering a novel plan for its students on days when school is called off because of a snowstorm: Kids would have to go to school anyway. Read more →
You could probably have forgiven the Red Wing boys basketball team if they’d decided to sleep in last Friday. After all, they had a big game that night with long-time rival Northfield for the section championship, and Red Wing hasn’t won a championship in 12 years.
But the team had more important things to do. Read more →
The latest controversy involving a public employee posting on Facebook doesn’t involve any specific racial mentions, but Black Lives Matter wants a Como Park Senior High School teacher fired anyway. Read more →
I suppose it’s no secret that if you want to appeal to the ‘average’ person in America — or so the elitist political experts suggest — you must try to be a little less competent at the use of the English language.
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In an otherwise ordinary news release announcing a ‘partnership’ between the University of St. Thomas and Laundry Doctor, which will install drop-and-go laundry lockers, it’s this paragraph that’s gotten the attention of the kids who know how to do laundry after hitting couch cushions for change. Read more →
U.S. Marshals are getting tough with student loan delinquents.
Fox26 in Houston reports armed marshals — there’s probably not another kind — have fanned out over the territory to bring the deadbeats to justice. Read more →
In Virginia, a school showed its students a four-minute video called ‘Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race’ last week during a schoolwide assembly. The parental backlash was intense. Read more →
One wonders if the astronauts considered that at some point in the future, we would be sitting on our couches with a computer on our laps many times more powerful than their entire spacecraft’s technology, reading their scribbles.
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Like salmon returning to their spawning ground, lovers of trivia are returning to St. Cloud this weekend for the annual trivia weekend on KVSC, the St. Cloud State University radio station. Read more →
A high school coach’s generosity in a cross-country ski race cost his team a chance to compete for the state championship. Read more →
Bob Collins