By Jessica Turner
While Jamie and I were looking through old Com-Mini-Cations, I noticed an article that intrigued me. It was an article titled “Back to the Suburbs” [Editor’s Note: you can read that article here.] about a boy who came from Central high. He talked about how different the schools were, and how the people treated you.
Mike Gerhard originally lived in Minnetonka. He moved to the cities to go to Central, and came back his senior year, he had a story to tell.
“Going to Central is such a contrast to Minnetonka. At Central people were themselves and were not ashamed of it.”
He wrote about Minnetonka and how all the mainstream students were alike. They wore the same pants, hair, and attitudes. If you were a bit different, you were threatening their perfect world.
So from then on Mike got into Mini-School, where he felt at home. And wasn’t threatened by a voodoo doll look alike.
That’s particularly why we have Mini-School today. For the independent kids, the ones that speak up for themselves. (One way or another.)
For I find that many people don’t appreciate Mini-Schoolers. I’m not saying that we need to be treated like gods, but we do deserve respect. At least treat everyone like you would treat yourself.