Editors’ note: Randy is a senior at Minnesota New Country School (Henderson). He works full-time, part of the time at two dairy farms in Le Sueur and Norseland. This doesn’t leave much time for socializing, and, besides, his pal One-Eyed Sally hates movies. I come to school and the first words out of some kid’s […]
Editors’ note: Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, non-denominational Christian housing organization. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 150,000 houses in more than 89 countries, including some 50,000 houses across the United States. (www.habitat.org) CPA Students work on Habitat for Humanity house Look out, Jimmy Carter. The Community of Peace Academy juniors are […]
Hello fellow punks out there. This is a little article about my top five albums of all time. Number one on my list is the Dead Kennedys’ infamous debut album, “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables,” released in 1978 on the Cherry Red label, now reissued by Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles label […]
At the Hanska Community School we met the ambassador’s wife from Norway. Each student gave her flowers. She visited our school and asked questions about what we do. She talks in a different way.
ARTech [Northfield School of Arts and Technology] is a project-based charter school, so the students have to do projects for credit. Friends Kyle and Chris put together a disc-jockey project at the beginning of the school year. They wanted to learn about disc jockeys and Chris’ uncle, Dennis Johnson, is a DJ, so it worked […]
Two years ago, I first started middle school. I, like almost everyone else, was pretty nervous. Things went well at first, but after a couple of months everything changed. By spring, I totally dreaded school. I can’t pinpoint when things changed, but I can say why. The teachers and staff were either indifferent to bullying or told me to just ignore it.
Then I spent a year in Oslo, Norway […]
The kind of person everybody Wants to call their friend When you talk they look into Your eyes and listen with Their whole heart. When they hug, they hug tight As if they were giving you a circle Of safety, and you know that Somehow everything is going to be okay.
Sojourner Academy celebrates Fall Festival Last October, Halloween came in with a gigantic boom. Students from Sojourner Truth Academy came in the evening to play math games to get candy. Teachers gave out two or three pieces of candy to each student who played the game, even if a student did not finish it. One […]
Gary Knox and the Liberty High gang are bullish on the future Every time I walk down Main Street in Henderson, I marvel at the historic brick buildings that line it. Sometimes I can almost see the blacktop turn to dust under my feet and horses roped to hitching posts outside the buildings. No doubt […]
In the spring of last year, Dr. Karen Rusthoven, the founder and principal of our school, the Community of Peace Academy, got a call. With a committee of teachers, Dr. Rusthoven had applied months earlier for the National Schools of Character Award. And, after years of hard work, CPA had won. Dr. Rusthoven visited a […]