Stories told in the Next to Normal Story Slams each month at the McLean County Arts Center are often funny. This one not so much.
It shows in a scary way that teaching can be full of the unexpected. Chris Belt is an English teacher at Normal Community High School. Seven years ago Belt was in school when a troubled teen took a classroom hostage and a shooting incident happened.
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