YouTube Clips Show 'Hopkins' Students Smoking, Vandalizing Restroom

The users claim a lifestyle that consists of ‘(messing stuff) up ... getting kicked out, having fun, photography, and much more.’

UPDATED 3:30 p.m. Feb. 13 to include a statement from the Hopkins High School principal.   A YouTube user Tuesday posted a video on the popular video-sharing site that it claimed were Hopkin School District students smoking on a school bus and chasing other students with flames from a lit aerosol spray can in a school hallway. Earlier videos showed a teen vandalizing a public restroom, a young boy smoking in Knollwood Mall and other acts. One video—a 1-minute-39-second clip titled “Only at Hopkins”—showed a teen smoking in the back of a school bus while Amy Winehouse’s song “Rehab” played in the background. The bus driver later asks if anyone is smoking and threatens to check security cameras. The video ends with another student mooning …

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Hopkins Chiropractor Placed on Probation

Gary Lee Smith Jr. is accused of making diagnoses and ordering tests with insufficient documentation.

The Board of Chiropractic Examiners fined a Hopkins chiropractor $40,000, placed him on probation and ordered him to take an ethics class following accusations that he made diagnoses and ordered tests with insufficient documentation, according to a board stipulation and order signed last week. Gary Lee Smith Jr. is accused of providing insufficient documentation for: The order also states that there were insufficient clinical indicators to justify neurodiagnostic testing in six patients and to justify the length and quantity of services for six patients. Patch could not immediately confirm which practice Smith works at or what sparked the investigation. He did not admit to the accusations but signed off on the order for the purposes of …

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Parents Talk

Parents Talk: What To Do With a Spoiled Kid?

Budgeting? Discipline? What's the best answer to preventing self-entitlement in your children?

It's an all-too-common sight in retail store toy departments: a toddler or young child wailing because his or her parents won't buy them the latest Cars 2 Lightning McQueen, an action figure or a board game. Parenting advice websites have plenty of tips for moms and dads dealing with a spoiled child. Teach your child the difference between wants and needs, one column says. Instill a sense of budgeting in your child, another recommends. As a parent, how do you handle those volatile, sometimes embarrassing situations? Or, better yet, how do you keep your kids from becoming spoiled in the first place? Here's what some of our local moms had to say: Katelynn Metz, Minnetonka Patch Editor Spoiled kid? I got two of them. Products of my own …

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