[warubozu]

Bomb making 101:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6985768/?GT1=6190

 

[TWIFOSP]

Shrug.

Students could find way worse on the internet if they wanted to.

But I agree, the scale at which he was demonstrating "reactionary rates" is a bit excessive

 

[jerb]

i learn thing thta i need to know in school, everything recrational is done on the internet. ive explored explosives, poisens, drugs, ect. in fact i am 100% self taught when it comes to electronics (our school is so small, we dont even have any computer classes) but the best part about my school is that i get a 105 averaged into my GPA for browsing head-fi and building amps... sweet

 

[Aman]

jerb: Since you live in CT, and I lived in CT, can you please tell me HOW you did this?

Extra credit or something like that? Which high school do you go to? Thanks.

As far as this event goes, I honestly hope this guy gets locked up, breaking the protection policies of students. What a sicko.

 

[fr4c]

i'm still waiting for the day when they start teaching "Head-Fi" at school....

 

[Stephonovich]

What did he teach them to make, I wonder? I'm guessing something not terribly dangerous; perhaps a potassium perchlorate based one? It mentions black powder as well, so perhaps he was having them make that. It's actually quite stable stuff. Heck, even if you light it off, if it's in the open, it just burns. Low order explosives aren't really dangerous unless they're contained.

 

[aeriyn]

My chemistry teacher taught us how to make mortar type fireworks, complete with sparklies and colors and a homemade launch tube out of PVC pipe. She didn't get arrested.

 

[bg4533]

The kids are going to build bombs anyway. At least teach them to be safe about it.

I would have loved a teacher like that

 

[jpr703]

It's a shame that you can get in trouble for actually teaching kids how to do something. If he was apathetic and completely ineffective (like way too many teachers are) maybe he'd still have a job.

 

[raif]

I had this incredible teacher back in high school that used to do cool experiments like that to try and get people interested in science. I actually heard that he quit a few years ago exactly because of situations like this. I am just glad that I will have enough money to send my kids to a school system that isn't crippled by people that are so eager to hammer anyone that even tries to peek "outside the box."

 

[warubozu]

I never had a chemistry teacher that was exiting, we did some cool experiments in class but nothing close to messing with explosives.

 

[minya]

What will teach in school next ... maybe proper grammar and sentence structure.

 

[warubozu]

Quote:

Originally Posted by minya What will teach in school next ... maybe proper grammar and sentence structure.

Ooops, I can't type very well...

 

[Scopip]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpr703 It's a shame that you can get in trouble for actually teaching kids how to do something. If he was apathetic and completely ineffective (like way too many teachers are) maybe he'd still have a job.

not to be a cynic. But the powers at be don't want students at public schools to learn. They just want them to obey and to buy the products they advertise on mtv and the superbowl.

Makes it easier for their children in private schools to get into MIT. The federally funded and state funded schools need to follow a curriculum that doesn't even require students to memorize the multiplications table. Yet they are required to do standardized tests??

I'm not joking about the multiplications table either.

The few that make it through the public system are then accepted to college, just to pad and make sure all private school kids graduate.

Making it super easy for somone like me.

the sad truth.

 

[taylor]

When did it become impossible to know how to do something without doing it?