Cody High School’s prom is expected to return to normal, while this year’s graduation ceremony could be held outside. Monday morning on KODI’s “Speak Your Piece with Darian Dudrick,” Park County School District No. 6 Superintendent Peg Monteith was happy to report the Cody school year continues to roll along after swirling uncertainty last fall…
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April 8, 2021
One of the most perplexing mysteries about Wyoming’s 2021 legislative session is how the House could kill a suicide prevention bill. Then, when lawmakers got a chance to reconsider the matter, they rejected a second measure, too.
Trying to keep people from killing themselves shouldn’t be a controversial issue in Wyoming, which has the highest suicide rate in the country. But apparently it is, at least for lawmakers who decided against mandating school programs that train students how to recognize suicide warning signs from their peers and obtain help from adults.
Administrators, teach.
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Written by dariandudrick on March 11, 2021
Greeting each other with a handshake or hug …
Enjoying each other’s company at work, at school, in a crowded restaurant or bar …
Being shoulder to shoulder at a sporting event or concert …
Those were snapshots of our lives prior to March 11, 2020.
We certainly had heard about the coronavirus. It had been in the U.S. since January 2020, and the first confirmed death from COVID-19 on American soil was in late February. As far as we knew, it was like, say, the flu … some will get it, some won’t … just take the usual precautions … no worries.
Written by dariandudrick on February 22, 2021
A move to provide suicide prevention training to students in Wyoming schools recently failed in the state Legislature.
House Bill 62 (amendments to Wyoming’s 2014 Jason Flatt Act) failed in the House, 34-25-1.
Monday morning on KODI’s “Speak Your Piece with Darian Dudrick,” Darian discussed the bill and suicide prevention efforts in Cody schools with Peg Monteith, Park County School District No. 6 superintendent; Dan Cossaboon, Cody High School psychologist; and CHS seniors Hannah Blasco and Soffy Anderson.
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