Posted on 04/15/2014 2:09:42 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
A popular Los Angeles high school science teacher has been suspended after students turned in projects that appeared dangerous to administrators, spurring a campaign calling for his return to the classroom.
Students and parents have rallied around Greg Schiller after his suspension in February from the downtown Cortines School of Visual & Performing Arts. Supporters have organized a rally on his behalf at the campus scheduled for Thursday, gathered hundreds of signatures on a petition calling for his reinstatement and set up a social media page.
Schiller was ordered to report daily to a district administrative office pending an investigation after two students turned in science projects that were designed to shoot small projectiles.
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A school employee saw the air-pressure project and raised concerns about what looked to her like a weapon, according to the teachers union and supporters. Schiller, who said he never saw either completed project except in photos, was summoned and sent home.
Both projects were confiscated as “evidence,” said Susan Ferguson, whose son did the coil-gun project.
L.A. Unified School District administrators have told Schiller that he was removed from his classroom six weeks ago for “supervising the building, research and development of imitation weapons,” said union representative Roger Scott.
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Was it made from a pop tart?
It is like (gasp!) a gun! Zero tolerance! Run them all out of the school!
But the teacher looking at porn on a school computer? Got to keep him. The teacher who only allows liberal thought in class; promotion.
I did that too!
Remember the ‘darts’ from then that were made out of a sewing needle, a no.3 pencil’s eraser and some small 1/2” by 1/2” pieces of thin milk carton material for ‘fins’? No rubber bands, we just hand tossed ‘em and they stuck into just about anything, including tops of heads of kids sitting in the front of the class! Tossed from the back of the class, if the dart was arched high up into the air just right and the aim was good....thunk!!! (It would be ‘THE CHAIR’ for that sort of stuff today!)
Yes, we wouldn't want tech people who are comfortable working around dangerous stuff (assuming these NEA pantywaists have even correctly identified danger). I'm about ready to start cheering for other countries passing the USA in technical disciplines. These wussified guhlly-men idiots don't DESERVE to live in a successful country. [facepalm]
Uh, no Bobby, we don't.
What kind of school did you say you went to again?
Your USA basic public school system. (Not saying ‘darts’ was safe by any means btw.) It was a long time ago...things were different then. Do you remember the pocket knife throwing game most of the fellas played before school, at recess/lunch time and after school, wherever there was a decent patch of lawn? It was called ‘mumbly-peg’, (a few different spellings of that word I’ll bet), and the old boy scout pocket knife was the ‘weapon of choice’. Heck, we even had the playground teacher/monitor settle the ‘who’s knife was stuck closer’ silly arguments between players. Like I said, it was a while back and fun......but I would not want to go back for anything.
I remember mumbly-peg.
But I never heard of needle-darts! LOL!
I would never think of throwing darts or shooting clips or hair pins at anyone. They were just for bragging rights about how deep we could sink them into a non living target. We knew they could be lethal.
Did you go to school in the North?
You are 100% correct rw. Complete foolishness. (It was not an every day thing like mumbly-peg but idiotic nonetheless, even tho 95% of the tosses were at targets other than fellow kidlettes). Dumb little kids do dumb little things on occasion and Darts in class was one of ‘em! I only ‘played’ a few times, I wasn’t one of the ‘regulars’, but sill even once was stupid. Oh well, it was a hell of a long time ago. I think I’ll just try and remember good school times, like trying to talk the teach into bringing in her radio at World Series time!
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