Science is only fun when it's dangerous.
Posted on 10/28/2013 7:17:05 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Spring Lake, N.C. — A former Harnett County teacher said Monday that she just wanted her students to get a good, hands-on lesson. School district officials said the activity was a little too hands-on, resulting in the teacher's firing.
Miyoshi McMillan wanted her Overhills High School honors biology students to conduct an experiment on blood typing last Thursday, and she used a lab kit that included synthetic blood and seven lancets.
"Some students were, like, 'Oh, this is cool. I want to know my blood type.'" McMillan said.
She allowed students to use the lancing needles to prick their own fingers. After using the needles, the students wiped them with alcohol swabs so the next class could use them.
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I don’t have a clue what blood type I am.
Science is only fun when it's dangerous.
Under the orders of a government agent?
There’s nothing wrong with this. The lancers are not hollow needles and don’t retain blood on the inside.
Cleaning them with alcohol is also no problem, except in this paranoid ignorant society we live in, it is ill-advised to use them again after being cleaned and sterilized, even though there is nothing wrong with that.
Certainly of all the horrible stupid things that go on in schools in this day and age, this is in no way worthy of being fired.
Agree. We typed in high school too.
One of the first things we do at THE FIRST IN SERVICE OF THE YEAR as teachers is watch a movie on blood borne pathogens.
I may be an English teacher, but this is red flag city. Any type of sharps, including lancets, are not to be used in any classroom except with synthetic blood. Don’t really see how a bio grad couldn’t understand this.
I went to summer school to learn "keyboarding". ;-)
Nothing like writing (& concurrently typing) a paper in one take.
THAT'S WHEN MEN WERE MEN AND WOMEN WERE WOMEN...(accidentally hit the shift lock - never happened back in the day.)
That will come in handy as future heroin addicts and HIV contenders --
This first year teacher made some basic errors, but I’m impressed that she cares enough to recognize student enthusiam, and make attempts to incorporate that excitement in the classroom. I hope she tries again, just don’t go all Robin Williams Rebelious just yet.
This is the classic Mora, ca. 1957. Mine was green.
I know what blood type I am.
Red.
Thank God the crazy teacher wasn’t doing sex-ed, half the class would be pregnant
Science is fun only when its dangerous, Said a certain Walter White.
YOU DIDN’T SHARE NEEDLES!!
She had the kids share lancets! What a moron!!
Uh, AIDS, hepatitis...
Well, only the girls, obviously :).
Yep, I had to go through the blood borne pathogens training, big no-no. HIV, HEP A,B and C isn’t something to risk for class experimentation
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