Schools throughout Missouri are going beyond traditional fundraisers to help victims of the E-F5 tornado in Joplin that took the lives of 125 at last count, reports the Huffington Post. Seventy miles east of Joplin, about half of the Springfield School District announced plans to offer aid, according to the News-Leader. Third-graders at the district’s Roundtree Elementary turned their photography exhibition, “Visual Media Promotes Social Change,” into an auction to raise money for tornado victims…
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