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Michael Hindin May 19, 2013 at 02:40 pm
Welcome. I hope to see courses open to the public. A hospice is a wonderful service to our…Read More community.
KCLEGACYMEDIA May 7, 2013 at 12:40 am
We just made an inforgraphic that outlines the staggering cost of prom for 2013. Check it out here:…Read More http://www.kclegacypress.com/2013/05/06/closer-look-at-cost-of-prom/
Scott May 9, 2013 at 10:34 pm
Hi Mike --
It is possible to have liberal ideals and spend wisely. Sheri's son got a free tux on the…Read More back of his hardworking friends? Sounds like communism to me!
In all seriousness, I applaud Sheri for raising a sensible son, and I deplore Mike B.'s parents for raising him to blame a political party for all shortcomings in a society.
David F May 3, 2013 at 03:02 am
We (parents) have created the hyper competitiveness of amateur sports. Pressure on coaches is about…Read More winning, not too many coaches get fired who win state championships. . The measure that USA Hockey uses to assess the advancement of skill levels of US players is how many reach the NHL. The state legislature is trying to solve a problem even though they cannot define what the problem is.
J Johnson May 9, 2013 at 10:52 pm
The writer of this bill, Dean Urdahl, has gone on the record that NO coach has ever lost his job in…Read More Minnesota based only on parent complaints - so why all the fuss and sense of need to do something? What Leah seems to think is the opinion of many parents and she is very wrong. Hasn't everyone read the news reports of coaches who abuse players, who steal from the school district, who are horrible with kids, who choose teams based on which parents will contribute $ to the program? This ILLEGAL behavior routinely happens in practically every school district. This legislation is a shield for bad coaches. Never heard of a good coach, who treats players with respect and who works on skill improvement in positive ways ever being let go. School districts and bad coaches put duct tape over their mouths to avoid the scandal that would result if the community knew what was happening on some high school teams. AD's, principals and school boards already have plenty of policies in place that make it almost impossible to fire employees - why do coaches need more protection than the lunch ladies, custodians, aides, teachers and support staff? The answer is they don't and this whole thing is a ploy to keep the good old boys network of bad coaches in their positions.
Orono May 20, 2013 at 06:06 pm
My son attends a school with the opposite situation. He attends a private school, competion to…Read More attract new students can get severe. His school has gotten caught up in the desire to be a player in the sports arena in an effort to gain more students. While I admire the desire to become more competitive, when you dont have enough kids to field a football team, being competitve shouldnt be your first priority. The school has recently gone away from teachers being coaches to hiring outside the school. They recently hired a baseball coach that used to play professionally. When he is not coaching highschool, he runs a baseball academy. He cant live off only his coaching salary. His baseball academy is his bread and butter. It costs about $4000 to attend this academy. Half the academy was made up of his own highschool players. The players that paid the money and attended the academy played all the innings during the highschool season. The school was left with a huge black eye and was forced to replace him. The school has a senior class of only 70 kids (boys and girls) to begin with. It seems the math teacher who used to coach the team didnt have a sexy enough resume to attract outside students. The fiasco caused many average kids who couldnt afford the academy to quit. Now the school has even fewer kids playing and is forced to play underclassmen at the varsity level to fill the roster. Making a bad team even worse.
Michael Hindin May 23, 2013 at 12:48 pm
Simple answer G Wright is that "Mike B" manufactures it. IT has PATCH history of…Read More compulsive dishonesty.
Michael Hindin May 23, 2013 at 01:02 pm
People in general have a very difficult time discussing race. I nave gone to interesting…Read More presentations sponsored by the St Paul Foundation. (https://www.facingrace.org/) Good people who are trying to understand are often afraid of saying the wrong thing. It takes a lot of patience and tolerance to engage in this conversation. It is often difficult to realize that even though many of our generation did not set up the situation, there are still many advantages built into being in the racial majority and change is painful.
Dan Johnson June 4, 2013 at 10:23 am
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets…Read More to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.” Bill Clinton
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