Staff writer
Marion High School special education teacher Thane Schwartz received a $600 grant from the Target foundation he will use to take students to the Sedgwick County Zoo in mid-April.
Schwartz, Ann Holt, and Karen Konarik teach a small class of intellectually delayed students at MHS, but he is also taking students with limitations enrolled in the Marion County Special Education Cooperative on the trip.
Before the trip, Schwartz will have students pick out their favorite animal. The class will research those animals and then see them at the zoo.
“A lot of our students don’t get to do this type of thing,” Schwartz said.
Schwartz will use grant money for admission, maps, informational brochures, and lunch.