CHARLESTON — What's a ninth-grade English teacher to do when teenage boys are farting and teenage girls are complaining? Turn it into a teachable moment, of course.
Melissa Huff Salvatore seized on the fascination her Paw Paw High School students had with bodily functions and made it a lesson. For her success, she's won a $2,000 award from the state Department of Education.
In all, 13 teachers from nine schools claimed $20,000 in the Thinkfinity video contest funded by the Verizon Foundation.
When the gas-passing in Salvatore's class wouldn't stop, she challenged students to a debate.
The disruptive boys eagerly researched the human digestive system, even calling gastroenterologists for advice.
And they won.
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They wouldn't have had to go through all that mess if the girls had simply started farting back at them. 
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