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Age-based dose distribution may not always be best call Health and seniors care minister Heather Stefanson. I got my first shot of Pfizer vaccine last weekend, and while I’m relieved to have started my journey to possible COVID-19 immunity, I’m also feeling more than a little guilty. Opinion I got my first shot of Pfizer vaccine last weekend, and while I’m relieved to have started my journey to possible COVID-19 immunity, I’m also feeling more than a little guilty. All things being equal, I’m not sure people like me should be vaccinated right now. I’ll knock on wood repeatedly ...

St. Louis Public Radio Amy Ryan, a Rockwood parent, reacts Friday during a parent-organized forum on the district's diversity curriculum. What started as a tense debate over whether Rockwood’s schools should reopen in person last fall has descended into schoolyard bullying among the adults. Politics didn’t used to enter the schools. The elementary recitals and high school football games were where parents could put conservative versus liberal views aside, don the school colors and root for their kids. But without that common social fabric in a year of social distancing, the Rockwood Sch...

St. Louis Public Radio Amy Ryan, a Rockwood parent, reacts Friday during a parent-organized forum on the district's diversity curriculum. Politics didn’t used to enter the schools. The elementary recitals and high school football games were where parents could put conservative versus liberal views aside, don the school colors and root for their kids. But without that common social fabric in a year of social distancing, the Rockwood School District community is ripping at the seams, frayed first by the pandemic’s closure of schools and then shredded by a fight over whether and how to teac...

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) Given how many tears and anguished faces filled the room during a recent “community conversation” in Eureka, Mo., last week, you’d think someone had died tragically. Naw, it wasn’t really that deep. Just a bunch of white parents complaining about their kids learning about racism and how they feel hurt by the suggestion that they are racist if they push back against an anti-racism curriculum. Advertisement The drama started after parents in the Rockwood School District got a hold of a leaked memo to teachers instructing them to alter or hide elements ...

The clip was captured at a “community conversation” Friday in Eureka, Missouri which quickly devolved to shouting.  A video of this Missouri woman who insists she isn’t racist for not wanting her children to learn critical race theory has gone viral. (KSDK) Parents were present to protest the discussion of race in history and literature in the Rockwood School District, which has seen pushback against online learning and even had parents protest the school removing a “thin blue line”-altered image of the U.S. flag from baseball hats worn by the local high school team.  Mark Miles a...