By BISHOP NASH
The Herald-Dispatch
(Herald-Dispatch by Sholten Singer)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Under normal circumstances, nature typically disposes of the baby chicks born sickly or deformed each year in a classroom project at Central City Elementary School.
And though a slipped tendon had doomed one particular peeping puff to a life of flailing about on a crippled leg, it kept on living and growing each time the students checked on it in Laura Blackman’s talented and gifted class.
Bumble is now a sizable 4-week-old bird – normal except for its upturned and immobile foot – and its well-being has become the subject of a collaborative effort between the class and the Robert C. Byrd Institute in downtown Huntington.
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