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Wahpeton School district plans to move forward in George Floyd teaching incident We re going to provide both staff and students with tools that encourage understanding which will build our community in a meaningful way by focusing on these steps
May 10, 2021
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) Officials from the Wahpeton School district are releasing more details about a fifth grade teacher who had students reenact the arrest of George Floyd.
“The issue at hand deals with a fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Barb Michaelson. She’s a veteran teacher. She’s like everybody’s grandma,” Wahpeton Public Schools Superintendent Rick Jacobson said.
District is developing plan for enhancing diversity focus in wake of George Floyd discussion. 5:59 pm, May 10, 2021 ×
Wahpeton schools superintendent Rick Jacobson. WDAY photo.
WAHPETON, N.D. The superintendent of the Wahpeton school district said Monday, May 10, he doesn t want a recent classroom episode where students acted out events surrounding George Floyd s death to have a chilling effect on teachers and students tackling important subjects. He said the district is working on a plan for how it deals with diversity issues moving forward.
At a news conference Monday afternoon, Superintendent Rick Jacobson and other officials provided details about an activity that took place in a fifth-grade classroom after the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of Floyd.
A Wirral charity worker who stole from her bosses and two former colleagues, leaving them significantly out of pocket, had run up gambling and cocaine debts. Charlotte Swann repeatedly sneakily stole cash from a safe at the Wirral Women and Children’s Aid centre where she worked and even stole toys donated for needy children. And not content with that she asked two former colleagues she regarded as friends to loan her thousands of pounds, promising to repay it, but she never did and Liverpool Crown Court has heard that she does not have the means to compensate them. A judge told 30-year-old Swann that the centre provides care and refuge for women and children. “Every single pound, if not every penny, is precious to an organisation such as they.