Students at Mountain View High School in Loveland will be sent home early today so staff members can work with a support group in the wake of a Mountain View teacher arrested on sexual assault charges.
Students will be released at 1:30 p.m. to allow teachers and other personnel at Mountain View to meet with representatives from the Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Center. School staff members and people with SAVA will then meet in small groups and as whole during a two-hour work session.
The sessions are aimed at helping students and families deal with the arrest of Mountain View teacher Courtney Bowles.
Prosecutors this week charged the 31-year-old Bowles with two felonies and a misdemeanor after police found her naked in a car with a 16-year-old student Friday night.
Bowles, from Fort Collins, is accused of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, both Class 4 felonies. She also faces a misdemeanor charge of sexual assault on a child.
She has been released on a $50,000 personal recognizance bond on the stipulation she not have any contact with anyone younger than 18, including her own children.
Bowles was hired in December 2009 as an instructional coach to help teachers at Mountain View. She has been placed on administrative leave while the case against her is pending.
