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For more than two decades, Christina Czaja has balanced her job as a high school teacher with art shows in galleries both ...

They happened in big cities and in small towns, at homecoming games and during art classes, as students are leaving campus in the afternoon and during late-night arguments in school parking lots.

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Argus-Press Photo/Joe WalkerStudents and parents look on as instructor Cora Walby (seated) demonstrates the pottery wheel ...