Pushed to the breaking point
High school athletes continuously battle challenges to manage time, improve their game and be competitive. In the process, they have to hope they don’t push themselves too far too fast and wind up with a serious injury.
That’s exactly what happened to Stephen Weiss, an 18-year-old soccer player at St. Paul Academy and Summit School. He wound up tearing the medial collateral ligament in his knee when he came back too fast after the initial injury during a high school conference game. ... Read more >>
Your tales from the lunchroom
High school lunchrooms are places of gossip, sanctuary and loneliness. There are fights and friendship, cliques and comfort. Chicken patties and tacos are something to look forward to. Pizza and fish can be nasty.
Read the accounts of the winners in ThreeSixty’s March Your Turn competition.
FIRST PLACE
Dan Becker, Harding Senior High School Lonely at lunch
HONORABLE MENTION
Dominik Marrone, Southwest High School Sneaking out and standing alone
Mackenzie Knack, Faribault High School The ups and downs of lunch... Read more >>
Extended adolescence may be widening the class gap
Both Courtney Johnson and Mariah Grunke attend the same high school, Benilde-St. Margaret’s. Both plan on attending college. Grunke is doing her applications independently because her father did not go to college and doesn’t like filling out forms. Meanwhile, Johnson’s parents are very involved in her application process.
Although seemingly insignificant, their parents’ ability to help them with things like college applications may make a big difference.
According to Teresa Swartz, an assistant sociology professor at the University of Minnesota, the amount of resources parents can give their young adult children affects the children’s future more than ever. And her research suggests that the gap between young adults from families with substantial resources and those with few is growing wider. That can lead to harmful social divisions, she says.... Read more >>
