A small San Luis school got rid of its skunks, but a stink was raised about the maintenance director who told a student to gun them down.
No one was hurt, other than the skunks, and the unnamed employee has been disciplined, said interim superintendent Mark Maksimowicz, who was fielding calls today after tips about the on-campus gunplay reached Denver media.
The shooting happened last month. Two skunks had holed up under a house on the school campus. The maintenance director asked a teacher whether the teacher’s teenage son, an avid hunter, would kill the varmints before they sprayed or scratched a student.
“He didn’t have the heart to shoot them himself,” Maksimowicz said of the maintenance worker.
The student did the honors without incident, but the shooting was later reported to the school board, he said.
The student was not disciplined, and Maksimowicz wouldn’t discuss the punishment for the school maintenance worker. The sheriff’s department was notified, but no charges were pursued, he said.
The skunks were shot in the morning, but no students were in danger of being hit, he said.
“Someone is trying to make a bigger deal out of this than it was,” Maksimowicz said of the tipster. “It wasn’t a big deal, but it won’t happen again.”
The school on North Main Street in San Luis has an enrollment of about 200 students in grades 1 through 12.
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com
