Songs from the 1950’s-style musical “Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood” blast from a pink boom box in the Foster Elementary School cafeteria.
Serena Backes sits beside two elementary school teachers, creating cut-out characters in poodle skirts and blue jeans as youngsters surround the table, singing along at the top of their lungs.
Backes, a junior in high school, has been working as a teacher’s assistant at the Foster School 20th Century Learning Center since December through…