On a Chicago high school stage, students relive Columbine school shooting
by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune
Mar 20, 2018
3 minutes
It was December when Ben Dicke, theater department chair at The Chicago Academy for the Arts, approached Jason Patera, the head of school, to share his vision for the spring play.
"Ben said, 'Look, I want to do this play "Columbinus,"'" Patera recalled last week. "I said, 'Is it about what I think it's about?' He said, 'Yeah.'
"Immediately I had these two conflicting thoughts," Patera said. "There's no way we can do this play. And we absolutely have
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