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Article: A lesson in how to kill a school; North Star's teachers and students await today's news, but the handwriting is already on the blackboard.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 20, 2007
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Byline: Steve Brandt; Staff Writer
How hard was it for Patty Campbell to transfer out of North Star Elementary School, where she taught for 19 years?
"North Star was my life and my passion. I lived for those kids and the kind of kid who was at that school," she said. "What I found there was a group of people who thought like I did."
She has traded up economically, from high-poverty North Star in north Minneapolis to middle-class Barton Open School in the southwest, but still speaks in the possessive about North Star.
"We were doing all the right things. We're what this community needs and wants. Then they put it on the closing list."
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The exodus ...