{"id":21740,"date":"2025-06-18T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-elementary-principal-to-become-athletic-director\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:09:10","slug":"mesa-elementary-principal-to-become-athletic-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-elementary-principal-to-become-athletic-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Elementary principal to become athletic director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=985444d5-f366-499e-ab00-bbe185029c8c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"675\" alt=\"School district officials could not confirm whether the outbreak at Mesa Elementary School in Cortez involved students, teacher or both.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">School district officials could not confirm whether the outbreak at Mesa Elementary School in Cortez involved students, teacher or both.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Montezuma-Cortez School District<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma-Cortez school district has verified that former Mesa Elementary School principal Robert Laymon has been reassigned to the position of athletic director.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing Laymon at Mesa Elementary is new principal David Thorenton and assistant principal Melissa Carver.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1bdf09a4-08c8-50aa-ae21-18b5075078e8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"361\" height=\"357\" alt=\"Robert Laymon.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Robert Laymon.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Bailey M. Duran<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>\u201cWhile many decisions made in the district reflect personal requests, there are some that are made to better our organizational needs,\u201d Superintendent Tom Burris said in response to an email from <em id=\"emphasis-b8e4e42c83a91dfcd8faabdfd3f409d4\">The<\/em> <em id=\"emphasis-9e549b02e3325962681abfa387bcedec\">Journal<\/em> regarding the then-alleged change.<\/p>\n<p>Burris did not respond to the question about whether or not former athletic director Colton Trosclair had been assigned to another position in the district as well.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, the announcement of Laymon\u2019s reassignment has not been formally announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new principal has already been hired to replace Robert Laymon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,28,1855,60,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-mesa-elementary","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77439,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions\/77439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21740"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}