oh good grief...

[acroyear]

Students Aren't Allowed To Touch Real Rocks - Forbes.com:

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.

Comments

[dawntreader]

this makes me so sad. especially as that's my hometown

here's a NEWSFLASH for the schoolboard. THE MOUTAINS ARE FULL OF FECKING ROCKS. so are the WHOLE OUTDOORS. what a bunch of neanderthals.

my best best best unit ever in geology was 25 "rock stations" (heh, yes, really) where you decided what kind of rock it was based on the properties of the rock. you got to scratch it with a nail, your fingernail, a penny, dip it in water, do other stuff to it to determine what kind of rock it was. 25 rocks. i got them all right.

i probably couldn't do that NOW, but it was awesome.

wtf kind of lesson can you get from a god-damned POSTER?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

here's a NEWSFLASH for the schoolboard. THE MOUTAINS ARE FULL OF FECKING ROCKS. so are the WHOLE OUTDOORS.

which is why many school systems have already gotten rid of recess.