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

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Wanna bet that the school in question will want to look at the different types of rocks as they exist and not pay any attention to WHY they are different?