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Chicks put on spring show in classroom

IRONWOOD - Spring is a season of birth and the baby chick count in Doug Foley's fifth grade class at the Luther L. Wright School around noon Wednesday was up to six.

Foley was teaching his fifth graders through the distractions of visitors as the chicks were popping out of eggs in an incubator near the entrance to the second-floor classroom.

Word quickly spread throughout the school that the awaited hatch was under way.

Through a drop.cam set-up, students in other classrooms and anyone with a capable computer could watch the chicks hatch via the Internet.

Students from some other classrooms we...