confiscated as “evidence, TO PROSECUTE! Parents if you dont step up who will?
Sounds like the science there has settled.
Any more reason to wonder why our country lags the world in student knowledge of science?
My college chemistry prof built a cannon that used a hydrogen and oxygen mixture to shoot a tennis ball across our lab. Obviously different times when today school officials have a fit if some grade school kid uses their fingers in a gun like gesture.
Wait till she sees what a rubber band held between two fingers can do!
And the story continues on (adding my little bit):
“...and they went on to become one of the largest distillery companies in the United States?”
Funny how those home grown science projects can turn into a major business.
The project should be reconfigured to accommodate a credit card sized/shaped object and be renamed a ‘rapid EBT card delivery device’ and then it will receive accolades.
They must really freak out when they watch Mythbusters.
My brother did that for a science project. He got an A and then drank the beer he made.
So now any hysterical airhead can have a hissifit and get someone fired for some wacko notion that flits through the empty space in her brain.
Wish I had a kid doing one of these science fair projects - I’d suggest a trebuchet.
By the time the pinheads in the administration figured out what it was (if ever), it’d be too late.
I took a special night chemistry class in high school with my brother. The teacher (who was one of the school’s vice-principals) taught us how to make a combustible concoction of “rocket fuel.” My brother and his friend were intent on building a rocket with this stuff as fuel.
One night, they decided they’d test the thrust by stuffing the concoction in a flask, inverted the flask (holding the stuff in initially with wax), and ignited it. The expectation was that the fuel would burn and produce thrust that would keep the rest of the fuel in the flask.
It didn’t work. With a whoosh, the wax was gone, and fuel fell on the asbestos pads on the floor and ignited. The resulting burn left a foot of smoke at the ceiling.
The year after they graduated, they came back to try a rocket they built. It was not so much a rocket as a pipe bomb with fins—because it just exploded on the ground.
Was it made from a pop tart?
It is like (gasp!) a gun! Zero tolerance! Run them all out of the school!
But the teacher looking at porn on a school computer? Got to keep him. The teacher who only allows liberal thought in class; promotion.
I did that too!
Yes, we wouldn't want tech people who are comfortable working around dangerous stuff (assuming these NEA pantywaists have even correctly identified danger). I'm about ready to start cheering for other countries passing the USA in technical disciplines. These wussified guhlly-men idiots don't DESERVE to live in a successful country. [facepalm]