Bob CollinsAmong the more absurd observations in the wake of last week’s ‘boycott’ by the student-athletes of the University of Minnesota football team, was this in Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse’s column on Saturday.
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The players have boycotted practice and are threatening to sit out the team’s bowl game, apparently a move to try to pressure school officials to ignore whatever was in that 82-page report.
There can be only one reasonable reaction: Go ahead.
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In addition to an inability to merge and unwillingness to take the last piece of anything, picking up after their dogs is a stain on the image of Minnesotans.
The kids at Emerson Elementary in Minneapolis have had it with you, Minnesotans. Read more →
Perhaps we just acknowledge that math isn’t really our thing.
U.S. teenagers bombed on an international test for 15 years olds, with scores declining in math compared to 60 other countries. Read more →
The racist taunts between a school bus driver in Moorhead and his passengers has brought out school-bus drivers in the area willing to tell the story of what the job is like. Read more →
Hampshire College is putting the American flag back on the flag pole. The school in western Massachusetts pulled it down three weeks ago after it was set on fire in the wake of the election of Donald Trump. “I’ve received many e-mails, a lot of them extremely unpleasant,” Hampshire College president Jonathan Lash said. You Read more →
At far too young of an age, students in Renville are learning a painful lesson about life: Sometimes, depression leads people to take their own life. Read more →
A Moorhead school bus driver has been fired after he abandoned about 20 students at an industrial park last week.
This is one of those stories, however, that goes beyond the initial telling, which didn’t include why a school bus driver would abandon middle school students in his care. Read more →
One of the most impressive aspects of this collaboration between high school coaches to allow a young man to get the thrill of scoring a touchdown in a football game yesterday is that the game was early and close when he did it. Read more →
It’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen a video of one of these surprise concerts that pop up in unexpected places.
That streak has ended thanks to the students at St. Olaf who popped up in Edina last Thursday evening. Read more →
‘The world is watching’ is one of those cliches uttered so often that we can occasionally forget that, indeed, the world is watching.
The kids of Maple Grove, who responded to racist graffiti last week by posting welcoming letters to other students, were likely focused only on their fellow students.
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The kids of Maple Grove Senior High School did what they could today to fight back against the racist graffiti that was scrawled on the walls of a bathroom yesterday.
They lined up to welcome everyone to the school today. And the principal ended his daily announcement with ‘I love you all,’ I’m told by a parent. Read more →
Larry Potter was a black man in mostly-white Moorhead. For many students, he was the first African American they’d ever encountered. They were glad they did. Read more →
A Minnesota school got off to a rocky start on the road to making American great again today when someone sprawled racist graffiti in the school bathroom.
Parent Fred Ndip posted images on his Facebook page. Read more →
Nothing seems to be working when it comes to getting people to stop texting and driving so there’s at least a minimal level of understanding for the authorities in the Broadhead, Wis., school district — southwest of Milwaukee — who told students at the beginning of the school day last week that four of their friends were dead.
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