...and don't forget this:
Posted on 10/02/2010 8:22:36 AM PDT by luvie
Federal regulators are hard at work making the world a safer place for kids -- starting with the threat posed by toxic paper clips.
Never heard of a toxic paper clip? Neither have the manufacturers of science kits for classrooms across the country.
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Pinging...shaking head in amazement over our government’s
hand-wringing wrong headedness! Geez! Aren’t we in enough debt
over frivolous expenditures?
Didn’t the “Regulators” have something to do with “Billy the Kid”?
BTTT
I have a theory that one of the reasons American kids are so behind in science is that we have “regulated” our kids out of it.
When I was growing up you were free to experiment. I rode my bike everywhere, made lethal concoctions with my chemistry set, blew up fireworks, played games that people were “shot”, hung from jungle gyms, “cooked” in my easybake oven, etc.
None of those things are accepted nowadays. I went to the toy store yesterday. Almost every toy was a bland “collectable”. Nothing to really stimulate the imagination. Everything was “non toxic” and blunt.
Granted, something doesn’t have to be poisonous to be fun, but it’s really amazing kids’ imagination has been corralled and put in a box.
sad but eff ‘em. Take the paper clips out and put an instruction to go get a paper clip.
Of course, if you thwart the ignorant sobs one way they will get you somewhere else.
Better to just off ‘em.
don’t we all pretty much hate the government by now?
Another good reason for home-schooling your kids! That way
they end up with some imagination and ingenuity!
It’s all a racket.
Plenty of crooks will get rich overseeing this boondoggle.
It’s for the Chiruns!
There are still creative toys:
cardboard boxes
peanut butter sandwiches that have been eaten to look like
guns
forts made out of blankets
Kids always find ways to be kids!!
Exactly...you can bet that it puts money in some gubermint
person’s pocket and has NOTHING to do with kids OR safety!
You know what would be great?!!
If some kid put a paper clip on a rubber band and thwaped moochelle on the hinder!
Great movie about an American boy and his experiment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Sky
He would have been blocked in today’s world.
It would get a million hits on YouTube in 5 minutes! LOL!
But its hard for them to become scientists if they can’t measure anything, see how chemicals work, or do science.
There is no science without scientific method. Science can be dangerous. There is no way forward for mankind if the the government of a once free country can restrict the basic tools of scientific discovery.
Homer Hickam is what America is supposed to be about!
That is a GREAT FILM!!!!
There is no need for empirical study.
Heck, it can all be done on paper with the new math.
****Snort!****
...and don't forget this:
Thats the only way anyone would hit it!
Anyone remember the old “Things of Science” boxes? As a kid in the 50s, I got some old ones (from the 40s) from a neighbor and signed up myself. Loved ‘em until they started getting cheezy.
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