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Popular LAUSD science teacher on being suspended due to controversial experiments

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her209

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http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtal...r-lausd-science-teacher-talks-about-being-su/

One project was a marshmallow shooter—which uses air pressure to launch projectiles. The other was an AA battery-powered coil gun—which uses electromagnetism to launch small objects. Similar projects have been honored in past LA County Science Fairs and even demonstrated at the White House.

Schiller said Los Angeles Unified School District officials accused him of “supervising the building, research and development of imitation weapons.” He has been reporting to a district administrative office since March 6, as he waits for LAUSD to conclude its investigation.
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If the teacher was indeed supervising the building, research and development of imitation weapons, I'm sure some lawyer out there wouldn't hesitate to include that the hearing when a student or students gets injured and the parents of the said student or students is suing the school district for millions.
 
her209 said:
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtal...r-lausd-science-teacher-talks-about-being-su/



If the teacher was indeed supervising the building, research and development of imitation weapons, I'm sure some lawyer out there wouldn't hesitate to include that the hearing when a student or students gets injured and the parents of the said student or students is suing the school district for millions.
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How idiotic. Those marshmallow guns are pretty popular and common in physics classes. Ditto weakly powered coil guns. (The ones I've made are on a stand and only shoot vertically.)
 
Worry not, the District it self has no authority to fire him, or suspend him without pay. Only an independent panel can do that, a panel which the teacher gets to help select.
 
Can someone describe a physics experiment that couldn't be mis-characterized as a weapon prototype?

Otherwise this sounds like more think of the children hysterics.
 
“supervising the building, research and development of imitation weapons.”

It would never have occurred to me that a marshmallow shooter would be a "weapon". Or a single AA powered proof of concept electromagnetic accelerator.
 
Kadarin said:
“supervising the building, research and development of imitation weapons.”

It would never have occurred to me that a marshmallow shooter would be a "weapon". Or a single AA powered proof of concept electromagnetic accelerator.
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It doesn't matter if it might not occur to you. If a lawyer can make a jury believe that the teacher and the District allowed it, even supported it, and kids got hurt because of it, there goes millions of tax payer dollars to the "victim".
 
Physics: force applied to material objects. What experiment is not/aint weapon oriented? Throwing out all the fun experiments is the surest way to kill the students interest in science. My own experience in High School Chemistry, Dry, dry work book, mols for forty pages without a single experiment. I think they were trying to prepare us to be pharmacists. I was mixing fireworks at home, this class killed my interest.
 
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