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Met by a sea of Conifer-green T-shirts bearing the message “Do I Count,” the Jeffco school board on Thursday night temporarily reversed its decision to send Indian Hills students to Evergreen schools after they leave Parmalee Elementary.

Board member Paula Noonan said the board needs to look at all aspects of the proposed boundary change before making a final decision. She said the March 4 decision to have Indian Hills students go to Evergreen schools rather than Conifer schools was made too hastily.

Maybe far away or maybe real nearby — as nearby as Conifer, in fact — the tale of the infamous Depression-era orphan, Annie, is coming to life at StageDoor Theatre.

Middle school students from throughout the mountain area are dressed in rags and gathered to portray the Hard Knock Life of the orphans at the Municipal Girls Orphanage.

Just as the orphans at Ms. Hannigan’s orphanage have pulled together and become a family, so has the junior company at StageDoor.

The great New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell has an unfailing ability to find interesting things to write about. In his recent collection of essays titled “What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures,” he explains what makes some topics so interesting. “Curiosity about the interior life of other people’s day-to-day work is one of the most fundamental of human impulses,” he writes.

We are relational beings, and we’re interested in how others live their lives.

One Conifer High student isn’t going to let the Jeffco school board’s decision to send Indian Hills students to Evergreen go unchallenged.

Carolyn Severino lives in Indian Hills and is a sophomore at Conifer High School. More importantly, she understands the particulars of the boundary change: the distance, buildings and capacity issues. What matters most to her is that someone has made a change that affects her friendships, classes and routine — and nobody asked her.