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BHS educators are counting on '26 Shirts' fundraiser to help out colleague after cancer surgery

By Joanne Beck
Leah Wroten with Kassandra
Batavia High School special education teacher's aide Leah Wroten gets and gives a hug to student Kassandra.
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 At 21, Leah Wroten was diagnosed with cancer, and life as she knew it changed for the foreseeable future, special education teacher Natalie Keller says.

“She had life-changing surgery," Keller said to The Batavian about her fellow Batavia City Schools colleague. "She had not been working for six months.” 

Wroten, a BHS 2020 graduate, had major surgery, chemotherapy and related treatments since her diagnosis in 2024. School staff members have had football square and Dress Down Day fundraisers, and one coming up in February is expected to be the biggest so far, Keller said. It will be a 26 Shirts for Leah.

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