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
A graphic from the new SchoolVIEW website.On Friday, the Colorado Department of Education unveiled SchoolVIEW.org, a new website that aims to make it easier than ever for parents to check on the standardized-testing achievements of a specific school and district -- and it does just that. For instance, I clicked on the "Colorado Growth Model" icon on the home page, then a select-by-name button. Next, I entered the name of Chatfield High School, which my daughters attend, and in seconds, I
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
