By Chase Crowley From October 27-28, Mini-School went to Timber Bay for a service learning project for health. While we were there, we cut down trees, moved a lot of brush, had a huge bonfire and shaved the trees we had cut down. The food we ate up there was really good and the lodging … [Read more…]
By Steve Iversrud Mini-School has many great subjects of interest. One of which is their expansive English department which has two great teachers in it. First is veteran Mini-School English Teacher Merlin Zimmerman who teaches 9th, 11th, and 12th grade in and out of Mini-School. And second is Jen Goeptert who is making her Minnetonka … [Read more…]
By Monica Sheats Mini-School, which has now been around for 36 years, is an alternative program that was started by Randy Nelson and Doug Berg, designed to help students that were in desperate need of help, whether mainstream was just simply moving at too fast of a pace, or if they were in fear of … [Read more…]
By Jojo Skolnick As the end of the school year approaches, I have come to realize that I am getting closer and closer to the rest of my life. Mini-School has boosted me to new heights with my scholastic altitudes. The staff has been a supportive family for me to fall back on during any … [Read more…]
Hi, our names are Zach and Zorina. We are Ramona’s kids. We would like to reflect a bit or meander if you will through Mini-School. We each got to write the Meandering the year we were born (Doug really made us), but this year we wanted to because it’s our mom’s last year in Mini … [Read more…]
By Janel Hagstrom I came to Mini-School three years ago in my junior year. When I first came here, the only thing I knew about Mini-School was the rumors Mainstream had to say. I had anticipated my time in school, from then on, would be wasted hanging out with drug addicts and people who just … [Read more…]
By Jordan Helgeson Merlin’s Airplane block was quite interesting. For the most part, it went in order of time. Starting at the first flight with the Wright Brother’s glider, where they used wood and fabric and warped the whole wing to take turns and landed on skids. Then onto rigid body designs using three control … [Read more…]
By Griffin Gau
By David B.W. One September ago, when school’s tight grasp of authority had once again crept upon the innocent students, from which it derived it’s life, a van drove to Wisconsin. What was to emerge from that van was a different kind of student; equally respectable and ambitious yet, unable to find their way in … [Read more…]
By Falica Smith Love’s a game to some people &normally ends in pain, somehow Inever imagined it would break myheart & corrupt my soul. I thoughtwould always be the one thing to getme through this life. Now my heart isbroken into millions of pieces & mysoul and all I ever knew is lost likethe sun … [Read more…]