QUID HAS HEARD the Celine Dion icon “My Heart Will Go One,” queued up when the story unfolded about the Great Mouse Caper in an Anschutz research lab. Seems that a few weeks ago the campus cops were called to investigate the mysterious drowning of two lab mice. The wee whiskery things were mysteriously drowned in their water-filled-to-the-brim enclosure, which was among other rodent cages not turned into lethal swimming pools stored overnight under a venting hood. The suspect, rather than being a jealous researcher or blundered PETA prank, was a very slow-dripping water spigot inside the vent hood. Besides the general weirdness of this story, Quid can’t unsee the vision of two little guys playing out a morbid musculus version of Titanic, as they tried to keep swimming or floating while the water rose steadily in their little cage.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that the eye blinking and slack jaws were unmistakable at school board headquarters for Aurora Public Schools this week when officials there released the list of finalist candidates for district superintendent. APS school boarders picked a short list of the usual suspects, school wonks from Denver and nearby. This after having brought in a retired Air Force General, who helped solve the Challenger shuttle explosion, and who’s made endless headlines turning around the district. One observer quipped that APS has gone from GI Joe to just about anyone in The Office.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that on the other side of Aurora, where Cherry Creek Schools fills the map, it’s hard to tell just what happened to a newbie teacher who displayed all the digital judgment of Congressman Anthony Wiener. Remember a few months back when Overland math teacher Carly McKinney tweeted the free world that she was watching a student get busted for pot and ironically had some in her car? Well, she’s been drawing a Cherry Creek paycheck since January as district officials and well-paid lawyers all around worked damned hard figuring out what to do. They finally figured out this week that McKinney no longer works there. What school district officials haven’t figured out is whether she was fired, quit, retired, expired or beamed to another dimension. She just simply doesn’t work there any more. If only improving student performance was so simple.
AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS