Abdiel Natividad, an OHS junior who had Cowan as his teacher last year, said she was a great teacher and someone, “you just couldn’t help but love.” He said as a student he noticed Cowan doing a lot, especially when former English teacher Jena Marie Graves resigned last April and Cowan added Graves’ students to her classroom.
Graves was indicted in May on a felony theft following a negative balance of more than $6,500 from the Bronchettes activity fund. The loss of Graves as a teacher led to Cowan teaching several classes that often had 50 plus students. Cowan said she had a teaching assistant but the majority of the self-inflicted work fell to her because she wanted to make sure no student fell between the cracks in Graves’ loss.
Interesting school.
I know the school....very high low-SES and migrant population. Huge student population busting at the seams as well.
The principal was just let go and replaced by the guy quoted in the article as well.