Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment

First time accepted submitter ruhri writes "A 16 year-old girl in Florida not only has been expelled from her high school but also is being charged as an adult with a felony after replicating the classic toilet-bowl cleaner and aluminum foil experiment. This has quite a number of scientists and science educators up in arms. The fact that she's African American and that the same assistant state attorney has decided not to charge a white teenager who accidentally killed his brother with a BB gun has some thinking whether this is a case of doing science while black."

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Re:Florida

[alexgieg]

We say they're important and then do everything we can to show them they aren't.

That's a good definition of bureaucracy, and what are public schools other than bureaucracies aimed at the parent-children demographics?

Parents who think their children are important do all they can to make it so. Up to and including, on worst case scenarios, learning enough to be able to teach their kids themselves. But it'd be better if they joined forces to get an actually good *and* cheap private school system going rather than doing things individually. Vote with your wallet, not matter how small it is, to get the good teachers from those fucked up government schools to leave them and start working for you at a place that actually values the fact they're good teachers, not good bureaucrats.

When people want they have the power to make right what's wrong. And many times making right requires parallel thinking. Going into the public school system should be always the absolute last resort. In every other instance people should always prefer that which they actually control.