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Maple Grove Hockey

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Hockey Boys Behaving Badly, a Local Lennay and Bye-Bye Beeks: Pick of Our Patches

The Maple Grove hockey team stayed in the news this week. Other looks around the metro include a pot bust in Otsego, a Vikings surprise, and Richfield mourns a baby lost too soon.

Editor’s Note: Every week we bring you a sampling of stories from Patch sites in the west metro: Eden Prairie, Edina, Fridley, Golden Valley, Hopkins, Lake Minnetonka, Maple Grove, Minnetonka, Plymouth, Richfield, Southwest Minneapolis, St. Louis Park and St. Michael. Services Held for Tabitha Rose Markle Tabitha, 9 months, passed away Monday morning from injuries she sustained in an accident on Lake Minnetonka. Her mother, Amanda, works for Richfield Public Schools. Maple Grove Senior High Shares Action Plan Following Boys Hockey Team Incident School officials: “Following the recent situation involving some members of the hockey team, we know there is additional work to do.” Hundreds of Teachers Rally Against Standards Based Grading …

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Obituary: Tabitha Rose Markle (in Richfield Patch), Maple Grove Senior High Shares Action Plan Following Boys Hockey Team Incident (in Maple Grove Patch), Hundreds of Teachers Rally Against Standards Based Grading (in Maple Grove Patch), and 14 more ›

Joel

7:46 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013

Welcome to Hockey High School where: Moving forward = don't look behind the curtain. Nothing to see here, just move on.   more ›

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Parents Talk: Teens Behaving Badly

We don't teach our kids to hang dolls at school or act in a way that gets them suspended from sports. So why are they doing it?

Bad teen behavior has been a recent hot topic in the news.  Several players from the Maple Grove Senior High boys' hockey team were suspended from play for several games.  The suspensions involved 13 players for at least two games, some facing four-game suspensions beginning Jan. 17 for an "off-campus incident." The nature of the incident has not been disclosed by the school district.  Students and staff at Minneapolis Washburn High School are under fire for an incident this month in which teens hung a dark-skinned doll. The district's superintendent said she plans to review the social studies curriculum to make sure students understand historic implications of such actions. Why do our children sometimes act in ways we don't understand? …

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Updated: 13 Maple Grove Boys Hockey Players Reportedly Suspended for Several Games (in Maple Grove Patch)

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Mary

1:35 pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Jonah, Please do not lump all hockey players into the "Neanderthal" group. My son has been a hockey player since he was 5, I know the type of players and parents your are talking about but it is not all in fact it is a small group overall that behave badly. However that being said, I do not agree with the way the Maple Grove situation is being handled. This is not just a "boys being boys" …   more ›

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