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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We used to do this when we were kids.
They also use ethanol...either one will burn, and if it is in a gel like carrier it will, as you said, not evaporate immediately,and cause a lingering fire with burning...isn’t napalm jellied gasoline?
Woops I see I said “he” not she- didn’t even catch that when you wrote your response. I’m a little dense today. My play o the word fire was all I was thinking about when I posted. Anyways good catch.
Essentially. Back when I was young and stupid, we tried making some out of gasoline and styrofoam.
Scanned what was posted. Obviously missed the last line.
I am a retired urban public school teacher. Permit me to make a few observations. I can only speak about high schools.
In general, my teacher colleagues came in two flavors. One group had real degrees (in math, chemistry, history, or whatever). The other group had degrees in education, with a minor in the subject they were teaching.
The first group knew their stuff. The second group, not so much. That’s one reason why I have long advocated that university schools of education be abolished. You wanna teach math? Then go get a degree in math. Then understudy with an expert math teacher.
This, however, is not the main reason why urban public schools are failing. The #1 problem is with the administrators. They absolutely will not discipline disruptive students. Principals are evaluated by how many suspensions they hand out. The fewer, the better. It’s all PR.
So disruptive kids remain in the classroom, and ruin lesson after lesson. Scores go down, and teachers are blamed. Consider this. How can, say, a math teacher teach a lesson effectively when three kids are running around the classroom, and two more are talking on their cell phones? It’s darn near impossible.
But most teachers will try anyway, day after day.
Like rubbing napalm on their hands and igniting it.
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