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Sun May 6, 2007

Painter: Teacher's special choice still paying off

 
 
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By Bryan Painter
The Oklahoman
YUKON — Darlene Shoaf didn't wait until now to realize that her decision more than two decades ago was a good one.

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As a new Yukon High School teacher in the 1980s she had to decide whether to take her students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities to the Special Olympics Oklahoma Summer Games.

She took them. That proved to be the right decision back then and still is today.

Shoaf, 22 years after that first trip, is going to the Summer