Massachusetts Eighth-Graders Told Science Project Involving BB Gun Too Dangerous

Associated Press ^ | Jun 11, 2005 | Anon

[Pharmboy]

You REALLY CAN'T make this stuff up...

[Pharmboy]

You're not gonna believe this one...

[unbalanced but fair]

Okay, I have to say it
"You'll shoot your eye out kid."

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

You'll shoot your eye out, kid!

[mcg1969]

So wait, if the kids proved the opposite point---that BB guns were safe---they would have been accepted? :-)

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

beat me by 19 seconds, but I had to post the pic...

[Calpernia]

Every project my kids bring home have to be pre approved content wise by the teacher.

This whole thing smells.

[Pharmboy]

Somehow, we survived...

[Darkwolf377]

All kinds of stupid in this one. The kids, teachers, everyone is a dope.

[Beaker]

*ping* You have to read this one.

[jaz.357]

DANG!

Now Bobby's VOLCANO project is a bust.

[Pharmboy]

That is a deep existential point you are making. I'll have to think about that one for a while...

( :-D

[Pharmboy]

LOL!! I guess this also mean's that Jenny Lou's nuclear power science project is on hold...

[upchuck]

Another article on this subject.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks. I searched several ways and came up empty.

Admin, this already exists...sorry for the bother.

[varyouga]

this is off topic but can you post what that movie is called? I remember watching it as a kid but don't remember the title.

[6SJ7]

"A Christmas Story". A real classic.

[FreedomFarmer]

I guess floating a chicken through the Samurai Teacher's Lounge isn't a good idea for science, either.

[coloradan]

"The scientific review committee does not consider science projects involving firearms to be safe for middle school students," Degon said.

Note to scientific review committee: BB guns are not "firearms."

[unbalanced but fair]

Beat me by 19 seconds.

I remember when that movie was an unknown. Except to those of us who love Jean Shepherd's stories.