Imagine trying to find the alphabet in nature, painting with light or making your own animation.
This was what the Digital Photography students were challenged with after they began their first year pioneering Clark High School’s photography class, offered for the first time as a class.
When Bobby and Anna Postal of Bradley wanted their children to have an education that centered around Christian principals, they decided the public school system wasn’t where they wanted to send their kids. Instead, they started their own one-room schoolhouse in their community.
“It’s about implementing Christ in their education and into the lives of our youth,” Bobby said. “It’s about making that be a bigger part of the (education) process.”
It really isn’t a news flash stunner, but the Clark School District 12-2 is preparing to opt out in 2013. This means that the school district cannot operatve on the revenues generated by the maximum levy for the school’s general fund, in the opinion of the administration and the school board, and will choose to opt out of the tax limitation freeze.
Joel Price recently gave his monthly Superintendent’s report to the Faulkton School Board.
He reported on a measure currently being considered in the legislature that would allow teachers and staff to be armed. The bill hasn’t been to any committee yet and is still being drafted, but it is the result of the recent school shootings.
About 75% of the Faulkton High School student body recently took part in a survey conducted by Craig Schroeder from the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship from Lincoln, Neb.
Four family members from the Roslyn-Eden area who visited Abu Dhabi recently say the trip was interesting and an eye-opener.
John Cassens once again won over crowds with his musical talent, this time at the South Dakota Senior Snow Queen senior talent contest in Aberdeen where he placed first.
Becky Froehlich, a student at Madison High School and intern for Dakotafire, talked to George McGovern as part of a class assignment in September. That interview and her reflection on it are both worth reading.
The Webster Area School Board had a pleasant decision to make: What to do with an unexpected refund from Northwestern Energy.
By Becky Froehlich Earlier, we ran an article on the bad decisions teenagers tend to make when emotions are high and the difficulty in combating irresponsibility in their driving. One group of Madison teens is encouraging their peers to…