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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Ahhhhhhhh!
If you have an unusual blood type, it would be a good thing to know.
Absolutely ignorant to try to reuse the lancets.
Students during the past 37 years have done this experiment, found it interesting, and gained some knowledge with zero negative events.
It’s the teacher’s responsibility to know for sure what is allowed per the district they work for. She should have made sure it was ok, and someone with her degree should have known better than to try to reuse needles.
True, but expensive. I had to pay for a lot of lab equipment when one of my ‘experiments’ sort of, kind of, blew up the lab. It also took a few months for my eyebrows to grow back.
i did this in JR High School
We did this in 10th grade but everyone had a sterile lancet.
Look at your dog-tags, soldier.
“We did it when I was in school”
Yes I think we did this too, but I don’t think I was there that day, since I still don’t know my blood type. But I vaguely remember being disappointed about it. Maybe I was there but didn’t get to participate.
However, that being said, maybe it’s not the world’s greatest idea. There wasn’t HIV/AIDS in those days for just one example.
Probably. In Africa. And mostly in monkeys.
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