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Yellow Bird: Education system has seen many changes
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
"There is a distinctly different kind of student in our schools today. She is more worldly, less dependent on parents and some aren't as respectful as the typical student of decades ago. Discipline is no longer a paddling board or dunce hat.
Parents have changed, too. The parental group can be three fathers, or two different mothers and maybe a girlfriend or boyfriend in parental roles. Divorced parents are perhaps the norm rather than the exception. Parents seem to have endlessly tight schedules. Many aren't afraid to come to the school and have hand-to-hand combat talks with teachers when they think their child is right.
That, of course, isn't new information for parents or teachers."
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DORREEN YELLOW BIRD COLUMN: Rural Minnesota education earns an A
(The Grand Forks Herald 1/25)
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