By Jana Peterson
Pine Knot News
Middle school to continue life skills classes
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Cloquet school board members voted unanimously for life skills over computer programming during their regular meeting Monday.
At issue was a proposal by Cloquet Middle School principal Tom Brenner to replace the eighth-grade Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) coursework with computer programming. Brenner explained that with longtime FCS teacher Mary Jane Lundberg retiring, he wanted to make some changes before they hired a new teacher or teachers.
He proposed keeping the seventh-grade cooking portion of the FCS curriculum, but getting rid of the eighth-grade sewing/clothing care/consumerism...
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