DILWORTH, Minn. (KVRR) – For Robin Abrahamson, the trouble really began as she was escorting her two youngest children away from the Rebel Kids Care program in September of 2025.
“We entered the crosswalk, and me and my nine-year-old and five-year-old at the time, got about three-quarters of the way through the crosswalk when we were essentially mowed down by a vehicle going 20 to 25 miles an hour,” she said.
She says she doesn’t blame the district for the accident itself – the driver of the car was not a DGF employee – but feels that the treatment of her traumatized daughters, especially her 6-year-old, rapidly deteriorated in the wake of this incident.
“We went from having, like, six instances of issues during the full day preschool program the year before, to her being eventually suspended from the school district 26 times over I believe the next four months,” said Abrahamson.
Robin believes she’s echoing the sentiments of many parents in the DGF area, especially others who have spoken up in the wake of allegations levied at district leadership.
“Instead of handling the issues as they stand – there’s a lot of parents, and a lot of people that feel that the administration sweeps it under the rug and pretends it doesn’t happen,” she said.
She’s not trying to point fingers but does feel there’s a systemic issue with how administrators handle disciplinary matters and worries about what this might do to the community as a whole if the problems at their schools don’t get fixed.
Abrahamson described being on the phone with school staff to calm her daughter down.
“A male voice came over the phone going ‘You’re done.’ My six-year-old starts screaming ‘Ow! Let go of me!’ Come to find out it was the superintendent, Shannon Hunstad who had decided to restrain my child. When called out on that, he said ‘I didn’t know you were on the phone.'” Abrahamson said.
Hunstad said he will be speaking with KFGO’s Jim Shaw on Monday to address the allegations laid out in Shaw’s initial reporting.
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