"Ooh! Ooh! I know! That's a rock and it's a deadly weapon that needs to be banned, just like guns."
First, the wing nut educators fought to get dead frogs and mice banned from biology class. Now, they’re coming for the rocks used in geology class!
Kudos to Forbes.com’s Lenore Skenazy for spotlighting the absurdity of what has the potential to become a trend in schools when classes resume in September.
Michael Warring, president of American Educational Products in Fort Collins, Colo., had his shipment all ready: A school’s worth of small bags, each one filled with an igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock. Then the school canceled its order. Says Warring, “They apparently decided rocks could be harmful to children.”
After all, who knows exactly what is in a piece of Mother Nature? There could be a speck of lead!
The children will study a poster of rocks instead.
And so it goes in the unbrave new world, where nothing is safe enough. It’s a world brought to us by the once sane, now danger-hallucinating Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Better make sure to get all those pencils and pens out of the schools, too. Those pointy little things can be dangerous!
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When I was in fifth grade I used REAL rocks in my science project and won second place. The rules these days are crazy, especially in the light that US schools are behind other countries when it comes to science education.
I’m sure glad these jerks weren’t around when I was growing up. I’d be dead from all the protection they’re trying to provide. I’ve eaten pounds of dirt and germs and my body can overcome a cold. I guess I’m happy about that.
You’ll shoot your eye out!
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so you want to learn to drive – huh? Well, real cars are too dangerous, so we are going to let you push toy cars around.
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