High School Science Useful, Teen Self-Diagnosed Illness

Just when Seattle Public Schools--as well as private schools--are tightening their budgets and laying off teachers, we hear a story about why they shouldn't. For nearly a decade 18-year-old Jessica Terry from Sammamish had been suffering from a mystery stomach illness that her doctors couldn't identify. But thanks to her AP Science class, the Eastside Catholic School senior analyzed her own intestinal tissue through a microscope and discovered that she had Crohn's disease. A pathologist later confirmed her self-diagnosis.