Posted on 05/20/2014 2:36:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A Georgia high school student’s clever use of the periodic table may cost her a seat at graduation.
The senior class vice president used the names of elements in her yearbook quote that when abbreviated to their atomic symbol spell out, “Back that ass up.”
“When the going gets tough just remember to Barium, Carbon, Potassium, Thorium, Astatine, Arsenic, Sulfur, Uranium, Phosphorus,” Paris Gray wrote.
~snip~
School administrators, however, did not find the mash-up funny. They slapped her with an in-school suspension, barred her from participating in the annual senior walk and may even take away her privilege of speaking at graduation.
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This is sad.
An attractive young black woman, intelligent enough to use the periodic table in a discreet enough way to get her hip and youthful message out.
She should be celebrated as the type of young person our schools should be turning out.
It is ironic in a way. We send young people to school to learn to be independent and gain the ability to live a fruitful life on their own. But at the last moment, the school must jump up and reestablish once and for all, that it is the master of all things teenaged.
Once a student has qualified for graduation, the school should stand back, congratulate themselves for a job well done and wish the students well as they enter their next phase of what will be the rest of their lives.
what was that for?
A close relative of Unobtanium.
And who will see it 10 years from now. Good grief. If no figure it out till it was in the yearbook then forget about it. These administrators are Nitrogen, Uranium,Thallium, Sulfur. NUTLS.
Does it feel good getting that off your chest after all these years? You bad boy, lol.
I think it’s cute, but I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean.
Much closer cousin to sulphEr apparently.
There are a lot of things that are low-volume still made with through-hole parts where space isn’t an issue and creative layout and a few almost free jumpers gets you a cost-effective single-sided board. Recently, I just repaired a <3 year old LCD video monitor where only the “brainy” related video stuff was surface mount. The power supply and the switch panel was through-hole, naturally, single-sided. Non-surface mountable parts will always exist. I expect that through-hole will continue for the next 30 years.
Tolerances on the end: Get some now!
There -- fixed it!
Who cares, one of the most wasted times of my life was sitting in the audience waiting to parade across the high school stage just to receive a piece of paper that I now have no idea what happened to it. Let alone the cost of that fudugly gown with a stupid hat............
And this was in a gigantic school in Detroit that I had the misfortune of having to attend in my junior and senior year, where I can count the number of friends I had on one hand.
You REALLY want to celebrate your kid's graduation, stay away from the school and host a B-B-Q party for your kid and his close friends and really celebrate.........screw the auditorium!
That brings back memories of generator school AIT at Ft. Belvoir.
Man, I am old!
“Man, I am old! “
Only if the equipment you worked on said, “Danger, lethal voltage on back panel.” Then you can say, I’m old. But not before you tell me what a VCH11 was for...
I didn’t laugh, thought it was dumb, but seriously, WTH is the problem with the school administrators?
Living in a dorm at prep school, we took out an ad in the yearbook, as a fictional church.
The Heavenly Evangelical Dinners On Rock Mountain, Every AfternoonThursday, Sunday.
THE DORM EATS!
We got away with it!
I believe they are actually being procured again, Cavalry is being expanded upon some for more remote areas after Afghanistan.
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