The logo of Rishel Middle School.
Last night, emotions were high at the Denver Public Schools' board meeting. Many controversial issues were on the table: new charter-school proposals, a plan to have several schools share space with one another, and the much-protested idea of closing struggling Rishel Middle School in southwest Denver. For a big city district that’s been fighting for years to boost enrollment and fill emptying schools, this was a trifecta of risky moves.
A Flickr photo"Ah-choo!"
My wife has a cold -- a regular, standard, garden-variety cold. No fever. No blinding headaches. No agonizing joint pain. A cold. The kind that causes sneezing. And this Saturday, as we watched two very long baseball games starring our nephew in conditions that ranged from chilly and drizzly to cold and rainy, she did -- sneeze, that is. She let 'er rip in the advised manner, covering her nose and mouth with the inside of her elbow. But that didn't stop people around us
Linda Trabucco.Why on earth would a female high-school teacher want to boink a male student? After all, teenage boys are typically terrible conversationalists, are prone to doing stupid things (and then doing them again), and have terrible skin. And who cares if a stiff breeze can give them an erection? Most of them don't know what to do with the damn thing. I speak from experience....
Nonetheless, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Linda Trabucco, a teacher at Jeffco's
