Posted on 04/10/2014 2:13:30 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Schiller got into trouble after two of his students turned in science projects designed to shoot little projectiles, reports the Los Angeles Times. One of the projects used compressed air (but was not actually connected to any air). The other one was coil gun: a tube surrounded by a coil and powered by a standard AA battery.
An unidentified school employee saw the air-pressure projectile device and got scared because, to her, it looked like a fearsome weapon.
The amount of knowledge the employee has concerning science – if any – is unclear.
As a result of the unnamed employee’s fears, Schiller – who actually never got to see either the air-pressure project or the coil project except in photos – was dismissed from the classroom indefinitely.
At a White House Science Fair in February 2012, President Barack Obama shot a marshmallow across the State Dining Room with the help of an pressurized air gun invented by 14-year-old Joey Hudy. The “Extreme Marshmallow Cannon” can launch marshmallows up to 175 feet—over half a football field.
Obama was not suspended from his duties as president after the White House air-pressure gun incident.
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But, alert Secret Service agents tackled the middle schooler and put him in a choke hold, until the President was out of danger.
Gee, boy howdy! Imagine that! A public employee getting all skeered and hysterical and such over a real by damn weapon....wonder if he/she feeling so back and upset now they can't work. Maybe gonna have to go on disability and all that. Can't even every go back to work after that tragedy. Horrible.
Government school is child abuse.
Beyond pathetic.
OMG They are all going crazy. Like a teen boy (or girl, for that matter) couldn’t flick some “projectile” all the way across the room with bare fingers. So the school followed their mindless zero tolerance policy, and suspended the teacher. What a bunch of nutcases!
Man, they would have really crapped at my experiment of making potassium chlorate from bleach and salt substitute and in 7th grade.
I made gummy bears blow up in blue fire.
This is so ridiculous. It must be staged. (Activist)
Each week, liberals cause the collective IQ of this nation to drop one point.
The teacher’s union is even sticking up for the suspended teacher, saying that it boils down to preventing the teaching of science.
Puddle? What about the brick shaped feces? Probably needed a Hazmat team.
Criminalizing the thought of guns.
Instilling uncertainty in the minds of the people, so they will always be unsure if they are going to break the ‘law’. Raise their anxiety level, so they will strive to rid themselves of all forbidden thoughts.
That’s how slavish sheep are created.
Sounds like the kid made a rail gun.
Back around 1968 I had a electrical shop teacher ( when was the last time you heard of that) that taught us to build coil guns and we shot nails across the room.
I must have had a relative of his, In 1976 we did the exact same thing, with the Principal watching. He laughed the hardest of all of us.
Man, I’m just reminiscing about all the “dangerous” weapons we made out of just our school supplies alone.
Disassemble a bic pen, add spitballs or thumbtacks and we had a blowgun. A ruler, rubber band, and binder clip made a nice “rubber band gun”. Fold up a piece of paper just right, and you had an origami “throwing star”.
Heck, I even made a blackjack out of a sock and a few packs of “Now & Laters” one time.
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