District leaders decided not to bring students back in-person after winter break due to surging COVID cases. The school board extended the closure until next Tuesday, making MPS the only Wisconsin district to opt for a two-week shutdown.
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Brooke Frizzell of Milwaukee will never forget a 2016 conversation she heard on this show between a parent and child - John and Jake Ralston, a father and his transgender son. Here s Jake.
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JAKE RALSTON: I remember being different. I never wanted to wear dresses or skirts or play with dolls or play house with the other girls. I always played with, you know, the boys. I was running around on the playground. I was getting dirty. I was playing hard. And so I never really fit in.