"We had to destroy the village in order to sanitize it."
Posted on 04/11/2022 6:09:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
Some of the most popular science experiments in middle and high schools involve fire. And in many cases, under supervision and done correctly, those experiments are great teaching opportunities that really stick with the students.
But one student involved in a fire-based experiment at Granbury Middle School in Texas will always remember April 1 as a horrible day, and he has a long road of recovery ahead of him.
The experiment in question involved alcohol and fire. It's a common trick, often seen used on money, and sometimes demonstrated on hands. An item is coated with rubbing alcohol or some form of it and set on fire. The alcohol generally burns off before the fire can damage the material underneath -- except that for one student, something went wrong.
The school has not shared specific details, and the incident is under investigation, but what it known is that a 37-year-old female teacher allegedly put hand sanitizer on a 12-year-old boy's hands, set in on fire and seriously burned the boy.
Granbury Police Lieutenant Russell Grizzard told "Today" that the boy sustained "possible third degree burns on his hands."
He also said that the experiment had been done multiple times throughout the day by that teacher and another one in different classes.
"It looks like every class that day had a group of students volunteer to do it," Grizzard told KXAS-TV. "There was also another classroom that was doing that same thing where there was no incident."
The student was initially taken to Cook Children's Hospital in Forth Worth, then Parkland Memorial Hospital's Burn Center in Dallas. The boy's father apparently posted about the incident online.
As a result, the teacher resigned and is now under criminal investigation.
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Public school teachers - if they aren’t masking and sexualizing your kids they’re setting them ablaze.
Blaming the student. He flapped instead of clapped. Stupid teacher. I hope the student recovers. Big lawsuit against school district coming up.
This demonstration can go bad this way if the alcohol is allowed to run between the fingers at all. Saw it happen to my high school science teacher, who at least did it to himself and not a student.
I never needed a teacher to set myself ablaze. At the conclusion of my high schools graduation my mother came to me and said, “I actually didn’t think you would live long enough to graduate”.
My guess is there was too much liquid left on his hands before lighting the fire. All that should have been left on his hands should have been vapors..............🤔
A properly educated science teacher would know this and would not use hand sanitizer. The stupid burns. Literally.
She should be fired immediately.
I have a degree in chemistry from a major university*. After earning that degree, I went on and got a state certification to teach chemistry.
I had to take a lot of classes. And the instructors didn’t spend even one minute discussing laboratory safety. Not a single minute! I found that to be surprising, and disturbing. I guess they expected us to research it on our own (which I did).
There should have been at least one entire course dedicated just to handling chemicals safely. But there wasn’t.
* I am not naming the university as my ex-wife’s lawyers are still looking for me, and I don’t want to give them any clues. 🙂
Note to teachers: setting your students on fire is always a bad idea. Always. Even when you are pretty sure that it will be OK.
Trust the Science!
As a whole, public school teachers are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Although, they definitely think they are when it comes to raising your kids.
“Look the one thing we learned that the Democrats did, is they used impeachment for political reason.
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Hand sanitizer is poor-man’s napalm.
Teach a student about fire and you have taught him for a day.
Set a student on fire and you have taught him for the rest of his life..............
Was the teacher a flaming ____?
Asking for a friend...
Hand sanitizer is akin to Napalm.
He should be “fired”
SHE already resigned...........
“I have a degree in chemistry from a major university.”
I used to work in chemical research labs at a local, large company.* Every day, we had our labs inspected for equipment out-of-specs, blocked fire extinguishers, and unsafe lab burners on cluttered benches containing notebooks (the paper ones). And annually, we had to attend updated, audience-size meetings on laboratory safety.
“And the instructors didn’t spend even one minute discussing laboratory safety. Not a single minute!”
Our annual safety meetings were so boring, I often fell asleep.
* I am not naming the company, as I don’t want risk losing my pension. 🙂
D&D
"We had to destroy the village in order to sanitize it."
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