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11/30/2006

Best Argument for Home-Schooling

Filed under:   by Xrlq @ 7:51 am

For once, I am speechless.

4 Responses to “Best Argument for Home-Schooling”

  1. Phelps Says:
    November 30th, 2006 at 11:01 am

    Hell, when I was in Junior High in the late 80s out biology teacher lamented that she couldn’t give everyone a lancet and draw a drop of blood because of health issues, and that was almost 20 years ago.

    She said it was great in the old days, all the students had thier own razors, there was blood flying and shooting everywhere, she had lots of fun smearing shoe polish around the lenses of all the microscopes. (Okay, so she was a little strange. I’m sure she would get along fine here.)

  2. Electric Venom » Blog Archive » He’s No Mr. Chips Says:
    November 30th, 2006 at 2:43 pm

    [...] He’s No Mr. Chips Spewed by Venomous Kate in Education Bites Dubbed by Xrlq as “the best argument for homeschooling,” the story of a substitute science teacher who used the same lancet to draw blood from 7th graders for a class project is mind-blowing. [...]

  3. Joe Bodag Says:
    November 30th, 2006 at 7:24 pm

    My question is whether the regular classroom teacher put this lesson in the day’s plans. If so, he or she should probably be fired too. Any teacher worth a salt knows that you are taking a risk with a sub. Some of them are just plain nuts!

  4. Kevin Murphy Says:
    December 2nd, 2006 at 9:12 pm

    Well, substitute 7th grade science teachers didn’t get there by topping their class at Cal Tech.

    I remember one guy who decided to show the class how sodium reacted with water by dropping about 2 ounces of it into a (thankfully unpopulated) aquarium.

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