Posted on 01/20/2010 6:51:46 AM PST by steve-b
Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollas View neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said.
Maurice Luque, spokesman for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, said the student had been making the device in his home garage. A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students at school about 11:40 a.m. Friday and was concerned that it might be harmful, and San Diego police were notified.
The school, which has about 440 students in grades 6 to 8 and emphasizes technology skills, was initially put on lockdown while authorities responded.
Luque said the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached. There was no substance inside....
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Resisting.... urge.... to.... profile.... this Vice Principal.......
errrr....failing to resist...
probably a “professional educator”
probably “liberal”
err...
probably of a “protected class”...
I would love to see a picture of the device.
Seems to me that the student was smarter than the "authorities" so he and his parents must be sent to re-education.
Betting that the project was a digital clock powered by a variant of the “potato battery”.
If that’s the case, the VP deserves to be transferred to a general population school on the grounds of being unqualified (no technical skills)
I’m guessing that wires and other electrical devices were too technical for the Principal of this technically-oriented school.
Oh how times have changed. In the early seventies when I was still in school, I brought an inert hand grenade to school and we had great fun leaving it on teachers desks and watching their reaction. The most serious punishment we received was a dirty look. And by the way, back then, the inert grenades still had the spring and hammer intact so when you pulled the pin the spoon would fly off.
I take it that the vice principal didn't take any science classes when he was in junior high school since he can't tell the difference between a homemade seismograph and a bomb.
According to the article, it was a kind of motion-detector.
Is the general population of this country so ignorant that it cannot recognize a science project from a bomb???
Don't know -- but apparently at least one vice-principal of a school that "emphasizes technology skills" fills the bill! ;-)
I don’t know all the facts, but we can say the principal acted stupidly.
Will now run for school board.
The policy against bringing empty pop bottles and items that could be vaguely described as electronics to school?
Anyway, what I wanted to say was:
Dear San Diego Vice Principal:
You, sir or madam, are a pansy.
Furthermore, in your case, the terrorists have won.
Go back to bed, pull the covers over your head, stick your thumb in your mouth, and leave American kids alone.
Not your friend,
Notary Sojac
Having taught Science for 35 years I subscribe to the definition of “ The Toilet Fish Structure of Educational Administration . In other words , “ $hit Floats to the Top!”
This whole affair is crazy. The vice principal has been proven to be incompetent and should be shown the door.
I’d love to see the response of these idiots when they walk by a RADIO SHACK.
Apparently it was too difficult for the principal to just ASK the kid what he had made! Definitely better to call the CIA, FBI, Bomb squad, KGB....anybody who came to mind. This mental midget should have been jap-slapped by the kids’ dad.
In the early sixties when I was still in school, a student brought a WWII souvenir P-38 to school on the bus for some sort of class thing. Don't know exactly what since he wasn't in my class. (For those who don't know, a P-38 is a German 9mm pistol.)
Those "educators" probably don't even know what a "magnet" is...
There's nothing like a "tech magnet" school terrorizing and demotivating the next generation of engineers and scientists because of the ignorance and tight panties of those who are supposed to "educate" them.
When I think of all the science projects I took to school, I realize that I could have kept the entire left coast shut down from fifth grade thru highschool...
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