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DPS students must pay $24.50 per month for bus passes to school. This means students pay $245 dollars a year to get an education.

Note: This article was originally written for Life on Capitol Hill. It bolstered community protest, but in the end, Denver Public Schools stood by its decision to close the school. It was originally published January 2017. Dec. 15 was a sad night for three area Denver Public Schools (DPS) schools: that night, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education voted to close west Denver's Greenlee Elementary, northeast Denver's Amesse Elemetary and near northeast Gilpin Montessori,

It's funny what becomes "clear" to us as we age. I was a good student, and I love learning, but I see now that hated school. I was an A-/B+ student mostly out of sheer will, and there were certainly subjects I cared little for (math-related subjects, mostly). Ironic then that I found myself teaching at the start of my professional life. I dove into the career because I had found myself in love with school again at the end of my time in the system: I ended my life as a student