Rio Rancho High School story - retracted?

The Agonist (and probably a few other a-list bloggers as well) has a counterpoint to the story below. It appears that the story at least has some exaggeration and possibly some known falsehoods in it, despite being originally published in a respectable newspaper and then syndicated and very widely blog-posted. Read the whole story to get the other side, including the personal testimony of the quite annoyed teenager who wrote the poem.