NAME: Miss Betsy Knops... E-mail me by clicking on the e-mail icon in the upper right corner.

SCHOOL: Union Vale Middle School

CLASS: Intensive Reading and Resource Room

SCHOOL PHONE: (845) 223-8600

I grew up in Poughkeepsie, and attended schools in Arlington and 
Spackenkill. After graduating from SUNY Geneseo, I lived in Syracuse, NY, 
where I met a very special six- year- old boy named Bobby. He has a condition 
called Angelman Syndrome. People with this syndrome have developmental 
disabilities, are nonverbal, very energetic and playful, and most of all, 
very happy. I became Bobby's foster mother and legal guardian, we moved to 
Poughkeepsie, and I began working as a middle school Special Education 
teacher in Arlington. Bobby moved into a nearby group home when he was 
eighteen, and I now live with my dogs, cats, rabbits, a cow, and a horse on a 
small farm in Lagrangeville.