Re: Not really a pyro question...but..

In article <1132524009.537124.283480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
hhc314@xxxxxxxxx says...
>
>Don, Hell a good chemistry set? A kid can't even have access to a real
>Erector Set today.
>
>No wonder that the once formerly great American science and techology
>is now reverting back to Europe and the orient!
>
>Our kids today are so deprived from getting their hands on useful
>educational tools, that I don't think it would be inappropriate to
>consider them being intellectually abused.
>
>Kindest regards, Harry C.
>

It's a consequence of the abundant safety fakery in our society, fuelled by
lawyers adept in the practice of champerty and timorous insurers.

Some years past, Bob Cardwell sent me a newspaper clipping about an incident in
Austin, Texas, where he then lived. A student in a high-school chemistry lab
dropped a thermometer on the floor, spilling a few droplets of mercury. The
schoolhouse was evacuated and a haz-mat team was called in to clean up the
'spill' at a cost, I recall, of $30,000 (this was quite a while ago, and I'm
sure it would be much more were such a thing to happen today).

Is it any wonder that science is now so ineffectively taught? What school board
could look at such reports like this without promptly deciding that they will
never let themselves be exposed to such an occasion for loss? Unsurprisingly,
they either get rid of 'hands-on' lab classes entirely, or so deprive them of
substance that they might as well have been eliminated.

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