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McKenzie Watt, left, Grant Belcher, Melissa Balcher's son, center, and school principal Steve Swaggerty, right, dance during a Northview High School "Dance for a Dream" assembly to raise money for Math teacher Melissa Belcher who has ALS on February 15, 2012.

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Melissa Belcher, center, with her two sons, Aiden, 2, left, and Grant, 8.

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Northview High School juniors Amanda Johnson, left, and Samantha Good organized the Just Dance for a Dream event in honor of Melissa Belcher, a mathematics teacher at Northview who was diagnosed with ALS disease in 2010.

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Melissa Belcher, front center, with her sons, Aiden, 2, front left, and Grant, 8, and Northview students Samantha Good, top left, and Amanda Johnson.

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microsite ALS DANCE received 02/15/2012 The Blade/Ashley Streichert Each homeroom at Northview High School created a page for Melissa Belcher, mathematics teacher diagnosed with ALS in 2010, to create a scrapbook for her to cherish the memories at the school

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Math teacher Christina Comparato, left, and Melissa Belcher, right, admire roses during a Northview High School "Dance for a Dream" assembly to raise money for Math teacher Melissa Belcher who has ALS on February 15, 2012.

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A Northview High School "Dance for a Dream" assembly to raise money for Math teacher Melissa Belcher who has ALS on February 15, 2012.

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Tork (CQ) Barayan dances during a Northview High School "Dance for a Dream" assembly to raise money for Math teacher Melissa Belcher who has ALS on February 15, 2012.

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Kelly Shoemaker, left, and Tork (CQ) Barayan, right, dance during a Northview High School "Dance for a Dream" assembly to raise money for Math teacher Melissa Belcher who has ALS on February 15, 2012.

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Melissa Belcher, left, talks to her son Grant Belcher, right, after his dancing during a Northview High School "Dance for a Dream" assembly to raise money for Math teacher Melissa Belcher who has ALS on February 15, 2012.

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McKenzie Watt dances during a Northview High School "Dance for a Dream" assembly to raise money for Math teacher Melissa Belcher who has ALS on February 15, 2012.

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Math teacher Christina Comparato, left, helps Aden (CQ) Belcher, Melissa Belcher's son, to dance during a Northview High School "Dance for a Dream" assembly to raise money for Math teacher Melissa Belcher who has ALS on February 15, 2012.

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Samantha Good, left, hugs Melissa Belcher, who has ALS, during a Northview High School "Dance for a Dream" assembly to raise money for her on February 15, 2012.

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