I've had five jobs over the past year. One of them was a substitute teaching job that lasted two days.
The reason I was fired? I subbed in a high school chemistry class studying reactions. And I told the kids that sodium combusts with water.
The principal said I was teaching them about high explosives.
True story.
WOW
So it’s better to live in ignorance then I guess, huh? Dang.
Gee, my chemistry teacher (cs. 1966) gave me sulfuric and nitric acid for some home experiments plus a small piece of sodium.
> I subbed in a high school chemistry class studying reactions. And I told the kids that sodium combusts with water. <
I taught chemistry for many years. And I can verify how stupid school administrators are. Sodium does react vigorously with water. But no kid could possibly get his hands on elemental sodium. It would be way easier to make a standard pipe bomb. No matter. Out you go.
Here’s another true story. A friend of mine taught chemistry at another high school. One day she made a remark similar to yours, and the principal found out. My friend couldn’t be fired as she had tenure.
So the principal made her go through every student textbook, and remove all pages that covered elemental Group 1 reactions. Insane, simply insane.
You should have gone to his house and shown him the difference between some sodium dropped in water and a block of C4. The new would learn about high explosives. Idiot thinks gunpowder is an explosive I’ll bet.