Tragedies can teach lessons

 
BY JESSE OLIVAREZ
Published: October 6, 2008

Donny Black’s notepad appears nonthreatening. It’s a book of white pages with notes scribbled throughout. But each time Black has to pick it up, dread fills his heart.

It means something terrible has happened at Choctaw High School .

Black is the principal at Choctaw, a school of about 1,000 students that has struggled through 10 deaths in the past eight years.

This calendar year, the district...


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