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AP Science Teacher Suspended for Student's Marshmallow Guns

Posted by MikeMarotta 11 years, 4 months ago to Education

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Posted by MrSankey 11 years, 4 months ago

Incredible! I love AP courses and here's a guy who seems to be opening doors and instead gets clothes lined by admin. I was reading Albert J Nock's book on education today and it really makes me question how I do things in the classroom. There is an awful lot of wrong things going on in education nowadays.

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Posted by MrSankey 11 years, 4 months ago

"Whatever else the government does, protecting the homeland is number one. "

Am I reading this wrong? I would say as a student of history that subjecting the homeland to "it's" will is number one.
From your experience you see the beast puts a lot of cash in to it. Cool enough, thanks for bringing this up. Cheers

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Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 4 months ago

DARPA has already contacted the students who designed the 'guns' and hired the teacher as a consultant. <grin>

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  Posted by MikeMarotta 11 years, 4 months ago
  
  Yes! As a judge for the past three years at my regional science fair, I know for a fact that the US armed forces send their own independent judges to award their own prizes to those who present projects with direct (or indirect) military applications. Whatever else the government does, protecting the homeland is number one.
  
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Posted by SRS66East 11 years, 4 months ago

When did science become the friend of censorship? How many scientific breakthroughs have been made on the opposite side of societal acceptance?

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Posted by Abaco 11 years, 4 months ago

A few years ago I judged a jr high science fair that had a coil gun. It was shooting some ferrous thing (nails or something - I forget). Looking back I realize that I failed to be frightened by it. What's wrong with me?

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