All the room's a stage for Betz class

Plays help special education students get creative while they learn in the classroom

By BECKY THOMAS

Staff Reporter

What started as a way to pass the time during indoor recess has blossomed into an annual full-fledged stage production in one local classroom.

It started during a winter six years ago when para-educators noticed the students in Darla Fitzpatrick's self-contained special education classroom at Betz Elementary were getting restless. For a group of students of different ages with individual challenges, restlessness can soon turn to chaos.

Para-educator Sarah Crippen said it began wi...