Teacher suspended for student science fair projects

[Quantum Windbag]

Apparently, it isn't the right wing that hates sciance after all.

Schiller was ordered to report daily to a district administrative office pending an investigation after two students turned in science-fair projects that were designed to shoot small projectiles.
One project used compressed air to propel a small object but it was not connected to a source of air pressure, so it could not have been fired. (In 2012, President Obama tried out a more powerful air-pressure device at a White House Science Fair that could launch a marshmallow 175 feet.)
Another project used the power from an AA battery to charge a tube surrounded by a coil. When the ninth-grader proposed it, Schiller told him to be more scientific, to construct and test different coils and to draw graphs and conduct additional analysis, said his parents, who also are Los Angeles teachers.
A school employee saw the air-pressure project and raised concerns about what looked to her like a weapon, according to the teachers union and supporters. Schiller, who said he never saw the completed projects except in photos, was summoned and sent home. Both projects were confiscated as "evidence," said Susan Ferguson, whose son did the coil project.
L.A. Unified School District administrators have told Schiller that he was removed from his classroom for "supervising the building, research and development of imitation weapons," said union representative Roger Scott.

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Remember the good old days when a project like this might get you invited to the White House?

 

[frigidweirdo]

Truly bizarre. You're not allowed to find out the science behind projectiles. I wonder how NASA will cope in the future then.

 

[CaféAuLait]

Freaking PC BS.

"electromagnetic coil gun",

I think that if I had said it was an electromagnetic propulsion system it would not have been taken out,” he said.

It is not a gun but for rocket propulsion and roller coasters.

Instructor Believes He Was Placed In ?Teacher Jail? Because Of Students? Science Fair Projects « CBS Los Angeles

And these are the kids protesting

Were the students suspended too I wonder?

 

[Indofred]

These sound like bright kids, conducting science experiments.
There is no problem here. .. Outside some idiot without a clue, trying to stop kids with keen minds.

Someone needs to be sacked, and it's not the suspended teacher.

 

[Indofred]

That same technology could be used to create motion for a vehicle.
Narrow minds should never be allowed anywhere near a classroom.

 

[Indofred]

Freaking PC BS.

"electromagnetic coil gun",

I think that if I had said it was an electromagnetic propulsion system it would not have been taken out,” he said.

It is not a gun but for rocket propulsion and roller coasters.

Instructor Believes He Was Placed In ?Teacher Jail? Because Of Students? Science Fair Projects « CBS Los Angeles

And these are the kids protesting

Were the students suspended too I wonder?

That does it for me.
The teacher is clearly popular and open to ideas the students come up with.
Sack whoever suspended him.