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Oh Florida. Funny story. The high school (and I believe the middle school too) in the town where I grew up is close enough to the CIA campus in Langley that model rockets have been known to land there and be returned by men in suits (with any cameras taken out, of course).
Wonder if it has to do with her skin color. This was nowhere near a real bomb and it sounds like a stupid prank if anything. When I was younger, I had a cap gun that looked like a real gun. I was messing around with it while everyone was taking a test. I thought it would be funny and shot off a bunch of rounds. No one got scared, they just turned their heads to the back of the room and smiled when they saw who it was…
The nation just has become more paranoid because of certain events in the past decade.
Oh, wait, someone did, in 1927, and nobody launched a generalized war on sanity as a result.
There must be something else different.
Shame on this so-called school. We've all done this (probably with vinegar and baking soda) only a million times.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The nation just has become more paranoid because of certain events in the past decade.
Yeah, imagine how paranoid we'd be if someone had used dynamite to blow up an entire school building full of kids. :( Oh, wait, someone did, in 1927, and nobody launched a generalized war on sanity as a result. There must be something else different.
Oh Florida. Funny story. The high school (and I believe the middle school too) in the town where I grew up is close enough to the CIA campus in Langley that model rockets have been known to land there and be returned by men in suits (with any cameras taken out, of course).
I've seen a few articles mention Florida in the same way like "Oh Florida". What is it about Florida that people are referring to?
See also:
Florida Man, the world's worst superhero: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan
The 'Florida' tag on Fark: http://www.fark.com/topic/florida
Wonder if it has to do with her skin color. This was nowhere near a real bomb and it sounds like a stupid prank if anything. When I was younger, I had a cap gun that looked like a real gun. I was messing around with it while everyone was taking a test. I thought it would be funny and shot off a bunch of rounds. No one got scared, they just turned their heads to the back of the room and smiled when they saw who it was…
The nation just has become more paranoid because of certain events in the past decade.
Wonder if it has to do with her skin color. This was nowhere near a real bomb and it sounds like a stupid prank if anything. When I was younger, I had a cap gun that looked like a real gun. I was messing around with it while everyone was taking a test. I thought it would be funny and shot off a bunch of rounds. No one got scared, they just turned their heads to the back of the room and smiled when they saw who it was…
While I can't know the internal motivations of those involved, I would observe that neither the race nor the gender issues are necessary, in the Occam's Razor sense of the term [1]. The student suspended for chewing his poptart into a gun was a 7-year-old white boy. The student suspended for discussing shooting a Hello Kitty bubble gun was a 5-year-old white girl. Zero tolerance stupidity has been doled out across the board with no apparent regard for, well, anything, like sanity, let alone race or gender lines.
The 1995 Valedictorian of my high school lit off the hydrogen in the hydrolysis experiment, because, you know, it was there. Good thing he didn't pull that stunt today. Though I imagine that experiment has probably been long removed for creating dangerous quantities of explosives in the classroom.
[1] As a reminder, Occam's Razor is a heuristic, not a proof. Perhaps racism or sexism is involved, the lack of necessity is not a disproof of their presence, but the Razor suggests that aspect be cut away from your dominant hypothesis, pending future evidence requiring them in the explanation.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/carmen-tarleton-attack...
The MSDS specifically says never to mix lye and aluminum in a closed bottle. In fact, you're never supposed to go anywhere near lye without goggles and a dust mask. Kids will be kids and if they want to do this stuff in their garage then whatever, but doing this in a public place where no one has any safety gear on is wildly irresponsible and puts everyone at risk.
Permanently expelling the student and pressing felony charges might be overkill, but anything less than suspending them for a couple weeks would probably be similarly inappropriate.