Kathy Bernier will not stand "hateful" comments about Minnesota's superiority
Rep. Kathy Bernier will not stand for hate speech. That's why Bernier, a third-term Republican representing the Chippewa Falls area in Wisconsin, stormed right out of a meeting on Monday after telling...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter St. Paul wants Como Park teacher fired for Facebook posts
Black Lives Matter St. Paul will meet with leaders of the Saint Paul Public School District this morning to discuss the activist group's complaints against a single teacher, Theo Olson. Black Lives...
View ArticleBasketball team helps ballin', nonverbal Red Wing kid ask out prom date
Red Wing students Lucas Martin and Erica Quandt are close friends, classmates in special education, and as of late, high school prom legends. With Red Wing High School’s prom on the horizon, Martin and...
View ArticleReader: Maybe Rashad Turner's the problem, not the teachers
Reader Deb Shambo responds to Black Lives Matter St. Paul wants Como Park teacher fired for Facebook posts: "If Mr. Turner cares so much about students, maybe he should refrain from using them as pawns...
View ArticleComo Park High School teacher slammed during fight with students [VIDEO]
A public school teacher in St. Paul was taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries sustained when he tried to break up a student fight at Como Park High School. How the fight started, and who...
View ArticleIn Como Park High School assault, I side with the teacher
Reader Ryan Unterberger responds to Como Park High School teacher slammed during fight with students [VIDEO]: "Just because the teacher 'put his hands on the students' to get them out of a classroom...
View ArticleTeachers, parents believe suspended teacher Theo Olson got a raw deal
Last week, Como Park High School special education teacher Theo Olson incurred the wrath of Black Lives Matter St. Paul when he took to Facebook to vent his frustrations about violence and drugs in...
View ArticleMinnesota professors: Free speech more important than 'climate of mutual...
Outrage is all the rage on American college campuses. Both sides in a long-running but newly heated debate have dug in on their positions. On one side, some, most of them students, have pushed for...
View ArticleJohnson teacher is sucker punched from behind while breaking up fight
Two weeks ago, two girls at Johnson High in St. Paul started scrapping over whether one had stolen from the other. Nearby staff squeezed in to intervene as other students watched. Teacher John...
View ArticleMinnesota-Morris student group wants more devil worship, less conservatism
The town of Morris, Minnesota, doesn't have much going on aside from its public university, a 1,900-student branch of the University of Minnesota. A small group of those students are conservative....
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter posts St. Paul teacher Theo Olson's private blog
St. Paul Como Park Senior High School teacher Theo Olson used to have a public blog, a place to deposit all the thoughts and experiences he had as a teacher. Eventually, Olson changed the blog's...
View ArticleSt. Paul intern principal Brian White Jr. isn't high on black women, gay people
Brian White Jr. is an intern principal at John A. Johnson Elementary in St. Paul. And he’s got some bonkers ideas about black women. On March 6, White made a post on his personal Facebook page that...
View ArticleWhy does City Pages cover a moron's false accusations of racism?
Reader Ryan Caneff responds to Black Lives Matter posts St. Paul teacher Theo Olson's private blog: "So, City Pages, what are you getting at here? "This sounds like a man who has been beaten down by an...
View Article93-year-old Phyllis Carlson is learning how to email, and can't stop smiling
Most of us hate email. The advertisements are annoying, if not creepy. Work-related response chains seem like a chore just to slog through. Meaningful, individualized messages are few and far between....
View ArticleEven if you hit a teacher, they're still against mandatory expulsion in St. Paul
When Aaron Benner taught fourth grade at John A. Johnson Elementary in St. Paul, he never had the time or the support necessary to coach kids with extra needs while trying to teach the rest of his...
View ArticleViolence in St. Paul schools: Was it smart to mainstream special ed kids?
Jessica Williams responds to Even if you hit a teacher, they're still against mandatory expulsion in St. Paul: "I wonder how many kids that have acted out are part of the special education immersion...
View ArticleCandice Egan, St. Paul teacher assaulted by student, fired for speaking to media
Candice Egan, 63, was substituting in a seventh grade class at the Creative Arts High School in St. Paul. That's where she was attacked by a student who was upset that Egan confiscated his cell phone....
View ArticleAssaulted teacher Candice Egan back at work, still banned from St. Paul
Candice Egan was filling in for a teacher at Creative Arts High in St. Paul on March 22 when she was repeatedly shoved into a wall and a window by a student upset that she confiscated his cell phone....
View ArticleParents of transgender child say Nova Classical Academy caved to bullies
Little kids in the schoolyard can be vicious to each other, especially when they think a little boy isn’t behaving as boyish as the others. When it came time for David and Hannah Edwards to send their...
View ArticleReader: The parents are the problem at Nova Classical Academy
Reader Linda Fischer Wilkinson responds to Parents of transgender child say Nova Classical Academy caved to bullies: "And that's what's wrong with parents these days. This is a child who was hurt by...
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