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High school science teacher suspended for teaching science
Mark Frauenfelder at 5:11 pm Fri, Apr 11, 2014
The LA Times reports that Greg Schiller, a popular high school science teacher, was suspended because two of his students made projects that "appeared dangerous to administrators."
One project used compressed air to propel a small object but it was not connected to a source of air pressure, so it could not have been fired. (In 2012, President Obama tried out a more powerful air-pressure device at a White House Science Fair that could launch a marshmallow 175 feet.)
Another project used the power from an AA battery to charge a tube surrounded by a coil. When the ninth-grader proposed it, Schiller told him to be more scientific, to construct and test different coils and to draw graphs and conduct additional analysis, said his parents, who also are Los Angeles teachers.
A school employee saw the air-pressure project and raised concerns about what looked to her like a weapon, according to the teachers union and supporters. Schiller, who said he never saw the completed projects except in photos, was summoned and sent home. Both projects were confiscated as "evidence," said Susan Ferguson, whose son did the coil project.
One of the most important lessons kids learn in public schools is that school administrators are usually autocratic imbeciles.
Science teacher's suspension spurs petition drive (Thanks, John!)
Thucydides said:Science teacher suspended for teaching....science
http://boingboing.net/2014/04/11/high-school-science-teacher-su.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
I'm starting to agree with Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) that sending children to Public Schools (at least in the US) is a form of child abuse. I have a few horror stories of my own about Canadian public schools, but nothing to compare to this sort of stupidity.
Thucydides said:Science teacher suspended for teaching....science
http://boingboing.net/2014/04/11/high-school-science-teacher-su.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
I'm starting to agree with Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) that sending children to Public Schools (at least in the US) is a form of child abuse. I have a few horror stories of my own about Canadian public schools, but nothing to compare to this sort of stupidity.
cupper said:I suppose my Grade 11 Chem teacher would be fired for his first day demo of putting a balloon full of hydrogen up to a flame, with obvious results.
It's good to know that eventually we will loose all knowledge of how to make dangerous things and then the world will be safe from mankind. And common sense.
Goose15 said:Gotta love those feisty heists :nod:
cupper said:All my neighbors are weird and foreign. It's the purple ones I worry about.