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Cloquet Area Alternative Education Program principal Connie Hyde is retiring next month, after 35 years as an educator. Things have changed a lot over the past 35 years, with mental health a much larger issue, she said, but different ways of problem solving that bring more hope.
Thirty-five years ago, Cloquet Area Alternative Education Program principal Connie Hyde would not have dreamed she would be retiring from one of the state's leading alternative learning centers, a school that sends staff and students to train their peers at other schools and which graduated its highest number of students (57) on Thursday.
The surprise is not that Hyde remained an educator. "I think I was born for it," she said. "You know how you play school with the neighbor kids? Nine out of 10 times, I was the teacher."
Rather, it would have been difficult to predict the path she followed: f...
