The paws that refreshes.
Posted on 06/11/2007 9:28:12 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
NORTH BEND, Ore. — Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.
For an English assignment, he tested the bacteria content at four water fountains and one toilet to challenge a ban on students from bringing bottled water to class. It seems some were using it to sneak in alcohol.
Guess which was cleaner? It wasn't the water fountains.
He then asked students where they would prefer to get their water. That wasn't the fountains, either.
Classmates, teachers, administrators and board members said they had no idea.
Katherman attends the Oregon Coast Technology School that operates at North Bend Middle School with a focus on infusing technology into all areas of study.
Katherman, 13, used Q-tips and petri dishes, swabbing the spigots of four fountains and sampling one toilet, dunking the cotton in the bowl's center and then dragging it around the rim for a complete sample.
He took the results to the school lab put them under a light to speed up the bacteria's growth.
The petri dishes with fountain water were swarming with bacteria. The sample from the toilet was clean, probably because the toilets are doused with cleansing chemicals daily.
"I wanted to see the looks on their faces," Katherman said.
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Dogs are smarter than people give them credit for.
Dogs and cats have known this for years.
This might be a case where the researcher got the results he wanted to get.
Bureaucrats, always putting the best face on things.
Please explain to me how testing for bacteria is the job of the English teacher?
Gosh, (Unnamed English Teacher), I guess all your students will be getting perfect grades on their tests, since you've finished teaching them English and moved on to science.
The paws that refreshes.
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Dogs aren’t so dumb after all.......
A story exactly like this one was run a couple of years ago. Think this is a repeat.
I wonder how the sampling was done, Water fountains should be allowed to flow for several minutes before the sample is taken.
I’d be interested in knowing where, on the spigot, this sample was taken. That said, the water fountain surfaces should be cleaned regularly. The janitors on our campus do that daily.
Toilets are flushed more than the fountain is used, changing the water more frequently...duh!
I’m skeptical. I think the kid wanted to make a big splash, and protest the bottled water ban at the same time.
Would this be a story if he’d found more bacteria in the toilets?
He wanted a story. He got a story.
Did anyone check if the school had an outhouse?
This student should get credit in science too.
As I read it, this was not a teacher but a student doing the testing, interviewing and—I'm just guessing here—completing a writing assignment for his English class.
From the article: Katherman attends the Oregon Coast Technology School that operates at North Bend Middle School with a focus on infusing technology into all areas of study.
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