In-Class Meth Demonstration Angers Parents

KOMO TV Seattle ^ | May 2, 2005 | Keith Eldridge

[Thunder90]

ELMA - A local woman went 'through the roof' when a deputy took his anti-drug message to high school.

She says he showed students how to make methamphetamines, and she has the video to prove it.

Grays Harbor County sheriff's deputy shows class, "And the reaction will start occurring down there and start bubbling up."

It is part chemistry class and part drug enforcement as a member of the Grays Harbor drug task force talks to Elma High School students about making Methamphetamine.

Deputy shows class: "Then you'll have a little bit down at the bottom, the white stuff, and that's your meth."

One parent considers it a recipe for disaster.

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[Thunder90]

Another friviolus waste of taxpayer's money. And it is the cops showing children to make drugs. The chief and much of the department should be fired now, and so should some officials from the school.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"She says he showed students how to make methamphetamines, and she has the video to prove it."

Great. The cops better hope none of those students blow up their houses...

[Rebel_Ace]

Did he show the kids how to make meth before or after he shot himself in the leg?

[rockabyebaby]

and she has the video to prove it.

Where did she get the video???

[Dad yer funny]

HOLY S**T , if this is real , I could just chew nails , kids will be kids , do we remember whe we were young?? Recall the video of LEO discharging a round in the classroom??

[keepingtrack]

Seems like much ado over nothing. Any kid inclined to produce/sell/use meth is going to be able to discover that information for himself, most likely via the internet. It's not like a bunch of good kids are going to see that presentation and go "woah, it's that easy?!? I'm going to give this a shot!" Making a drug is much more complicated than mixing a few chemicals together.

[randog]

Yeah, no kid will want to try this at home. Children aren't naturally curious.

Next week's lesson--The Dangers of Gunpowder Learned by Making It.

</sarcasm>

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Any of these kids can go on the web and get a recipe for the meth. The cops just showed them how to properly set up the lab.

[anniegetyourgun]

"It is part chemistry class...."

Then why isn't the school teaching fundamentals of chemistry rather than pharmacology?

[expatguy]

Bleh..

These parents don't seem very tolerant now do they?

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[Lazamataz]

Grays Harbor County sheriff's deputy shows class, "And the reaction will start occurring down there and start bubbling up." It is part chemistry class and part drug enforcement as a member of the Grays Harbor drug task force talks to Elma High School students about making Methamphetamine. Deputy shows class: "Then you'll have a little bit down at the bottom, the white stuff, and that's your meth."

Un.

Effing.

Believable.

[MississippyMuddy]

Look, I just got home from work, did I read this correctly? They were teaching the kids how too make meth????????????????? My G-d how freaking insane are these nutcases???????????? Heads should friggin' role for this blatent display of idiocy! What next ? Crack 101 ? Advanced teachings of needle insertion? I'll go ahead and start saving money too bail me out of jail, if this happens in schools here. This can NOT be tolerated.

Jeff

[TXBSAFH]

When I was in high school chemistry we did science projects. One guy had a model os a samll still. He presented how to make corn squeezing. I could take one look a that still and tell it had been used. More then just for class.

[pa mom]

Well, at least they'll make more money at their lemonade stands this summer . . .

[fat city]

I forget- where is methamphetamine on the Periodic Table?

[Rodney King]

In my AP chemistry class, we made explosives as well as aan alcohol still. Of course, the teacher didn't know, he thought we were working on the real assignment. The explosives were quite powerful.

[nevergore]

Hey...When I was 14 years old I used to make gunpowder!

I also used to make small fertilizer pipe-bombs to blow up old tree stumps....

My buddy and I once blew up a stump but instead of it dislodging from the ground it splintered sending shards 150 yards. One embedded in the tree we were standing behind for cover....

Lucky we were not killed with the harebrained garbage we used to pull.

Of course I would not teach any kids that!

NeverGore :^)

[anniegetyourgun]

This is how public schools get away with teaching homosexual behaviors and other perversions under the guise of "health" class. It's also how they teach environmentalism in "science" class. Seems to me there ought to be some truth-in-labeling requirements on course titles offered in government schools.

[riri]

Did he give a reason why??? Is this under the assumption that they "are going o cook meth anyway, better to teach 'em the safe way?" Oh, bruthah!

[peacebaby]

A dear friend is a casualty to meth, and we can only figure he is surviving by brewing it in his bathtub and selling it to keep up his own habit. It's gutwrenching to watch him kill himself. And so my reaction is one of total disbelief and anger.

Jersey Republican Biker Chick, you're right, kids can get the recipe on the web. It's one thing to seek it out; it's quite another to have it brought to you.

The hotshot cop is a glory seeking idiot.