Bob CollinsSurvey numbers suggest the complaints teachers have about the job they do aren’t unique to their profession.
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A student is ordered to perform community service after his family cheered too loudly at his high school graduation.
Paul TostoThere are lots of humbling aspects of being a parent of a teenager. Among them, is the uneasy realization that they are getting smarter than you. Proof of that comes to me daily in the SAT Question of the Day. With my son starting to look at schools and getting ready for the ACT, I’ve Read more →
Gopi Ramanathan of Sartell made it to the finals of the National Geographic Bee, competing this morning with the top 10 finalists left from several million mostly middle-aged middle school-aged kids who competed in local and regional bees across the country for the chance at a $25,000 college scholarship and a trip to the Galápagos Read more →
The National Geographic Bee is hands-down the best of the student academic competitions. The 2012 national finals start today — and our guy is in it. By our guy, I mean Gopi Ramanathan from Sartell. I’ve covered lots of student academic competitions over the years but the state geographic bee was always my favorite. These Read more →
I have lots of sympathy for high school principals this time of year. You know you’re going to have to deal with some kind of senior prank. The only questions are how bad will it be and how do you react? Often, it’s easy. Break the law or damage property and there’s no question teens Read more →
Michael Olson
Bummed by the high cost of education? Perhaps the answer is a college education, that doesn’t require you to go through nonsense of being ‘accepted’ by a higher institution.
Hart Van Denburg
Principal Wollersheim issued an apology this week for organizing a prank at a school pep rally, but in an editorial the local paper said the apology wasn’t called for.