Cotopaxi schools

The "london" Saltiel stated in the Westword article:

 points out that the subject is kept alive in Colorado. “The students of Cotopaxi senior year study this story as part of their local history program,” he says. “The Cotopaxi library has it as well. I can’t oblige them to set out my point of view." 

So Thursday, I drove out to the school to see what they have and what they teach.  The librarian was quite shocked!  She said they have very little about the history of Cotopaxi and that the students do not study the history of Cotopaxi.   She suggested that I contact Betsy Denney who is active in the Western Fremont History Society.  Betsy descends from longtime Cotopaxi residents and has done a great job collecting and preserving information on Western Fremont County which includes just about everything west of Canon City.

Betsy has also been a substitute teacher in the Cotopaxi school and she said,

The school does not teach anything about Cotopaxi history.    4th grade does teach Colorado history but only what is printed.  They don't ask for guest speakers.  If it isn't in the curriculum,  they don't go over any history. 

And that would make sense.  Teachers today are mandated to follow a curriculum and that is not going to include the history of Cotopaxi...and certainly nothing to do with the Jews who settled in Cotopaxi.   Anything related to Colorado history would be limited to history that was generic to the entire state.

One has to wonder where the "london" Saltiel came up with the idea that the story of the Jews in Cotopaxi is kept alive in Colorado.....considering the senior year students do not have a local history program.

The earliest school yearbook is dated 1950 and there wasn't anything else dating earlier than that about Cotopaxi.  I wish there had been!

Once again, a person can write anything.  My "job" is to prove it true or false.  In this case - 100% false!!!


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