Posted on 01/02/2014 1:29:42 PM PST by EveningStar
A chemistry teacher at Manhattan’s award-winning Beacon High School set two 10th graders on fire Thursday morning — leaving one boy with serious burns — in a fiery experiment gone horribly awry.
Teacher Anna Poole had hoped to treat her students to a “fun” demonstration during their first class back from the holiday break, students told The Post.
But four flaming crucibles in the Upper West Side public school’s third floor chemistry lab instead exploded into a fireball that raged across a countertop and engulfed sophomore Alonzo Yanes, 16.
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My highschool chem teacher, Mr. Heron, loved blowing stuff up. I think He is the reason that I became a Chemical Engineer. He never injured any of us students, but did take out a big chunk of the T-bar ceiling in the chem lab one time.
Not a movie. It's a scene from a Breaking Bad episode: "Crazy Handful of Nothin'" [season 1 episode 6.]
I consider it a measure of the school’s educational prowess that they have tenth graders who are so ignorant as to not know how to pull the pin on a fire extinguisher...
Awful. Poor kid.
Willie pushed his sister Nell
Into the family drinking well
She’s there now because it kilter
Now they have to buy a filter.
The worst thing that happened in my high school chem lab was an open bottle of butyric acid.
When the bottle is labeled ‘warning, stench’, believe it.
I think I remember that.
Wasn’t that the inspiration for Elvis Presley’s big hit,
Return to Cinders?
My Chemistry teacher let us make Nitrogen Tri-iodide after school... fun stuff.
Those would never work here in Colorado.
The Forest Service only starts ‘controlled’ burns here during high winds, winds too fast for helicopter flights.
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