More Common Sense - Massachusetts Style
So, a couple of eighth-graders out at Amherst Regional Middle School wanted to enter the science fair with a project researching the ballistic properties of BB guns. Their point was to demonstrate how dangerous BB guns can be.
They were disqualified from the science fair on the grounds that - yep, you guessed it - BB guns are too dangerous. Your public education system hard at work.
Yes, friends, according to the school administrators, children should be discouraged from entering projects involving science in the science fair. God forbid the students be exposed to educational material that could potentially save the lives of their fellow students.
Fucking wankers.
They were disqualified from the science fair on the grounds that - yep, you guessed it - BB guns are too dangerous. Your public education system hard at work.
AMHERST, Mass. --Two middle school students who spent months working on a science project to prove how dangerous BB guns can be were disqualified from the state middle school science fair -- because BB guns are too dangerous.
Amherst Regional Middle School eighth-graders Nathan C. Woodard and Nathaniel A. Gorlin-Crenshaw spent seven months researching and testing their hypothesis that BB guns can be deadly and shouldn't be used by children. Minors can't purchase BB guns, but they can receive them as gifts.
The students said they proved that BB guns can penetrate a human to cause a fatal injury; pellets can penetrate farther than BBs; and clothing affects how far a BB and pellet will penetrate.
The boys spent about $200 on ballistics gelatin, which has the same density and consistency as human flesh, to use during their ballistic tests, which were done under the supervision of science teacher Jennifer D. Welborn and Nathan's mother, Sharon L. Downs.
"We put a lot of time into this -- every Monday and Thursday since November," Gorlin-Crenshaw told The Republican of Springfield. "We devoted a weekend to the actual testing."
But 10 days before the June 4 event at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, they were told not to bother attending.
"We had everything ready except gluing the poster," Woodard said. "We got an e-mail that the project was hazardous and it couldn't be shown because they didn't want to encourage kids to use ballistics."
Yes, friends, according to the school administrators, children should be discouraged from entering projects involving science in the science fair. God forbid the students be exposed to educational material that could potentially save the lives of their fellow students.
Fucking wankers.
