10 years after the Boston Marathon bombing, a Vancouver teacher is heading back to run it again

Sheli Morrell got her medal in Boston just before the bomb went off. Now, 10 years later, she’s heading back to run it again.

VANCOUVER, Wash. — From start to finish, it’s all about having fun when Sheli Morrell teaches one of her music or orchestra classes.

“It’s pretty fun when it clicks together. You’re like, ‘that was cool,’” she smiled.

Mrs. Morrell is a music specialist and beginning orchestra teacher at York Elementary School in Vancouver, Washington. The way she sees it — if her students are making sound, they’re learning.

“I don’t grade on skill level. I grade on participation,

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