Clearly, she should be sent to Gitmo. After a good tasing, of course.
A Florida teen with an exemplary record is facing federal charges after conducting what a classmate calls “a science project gone bad.”
16-year-old Kiera Wilmot is accused of mixing housing chemicals in a small water bottle at Bartow High School, causing the cap to fly off and produce a bit of smoke. The experiment was conducted outdoors, no property was damaged, and no one was injured.
Not long after Wilmot’s experiment, authorities arrested her and charged her with “possession/discharge of a weapon on school property and discharging a destructive device,” according to WTSP-TV. The school district proceeded to expel Wilmot for handling the “dangerous weapon,” also known as a water bottle. She will have to complete her high school education through an expulsion program.
[…]
“She just wanted to see what happened to those chemicals in the bottle,” a classmate added. “Now, look what happened.”Polk County Schools stands by its decision to expel Wilmot, asserting in a statement, “there are consequences to actions,” and calling Wilmot’s experiment a “serious breach of conduct.”
Oh, well. Another potential career as a chemist thwarted by the man.
I grew up in a relatively free country. I’ll die in a police state.
Costa Rica or Malaysia is looking better all the time.
Wait, they still need chemists to produce GMO for Monsanto…
Its getting all computerized now.
Monsanto needs chemists, geneticists, environmentalists, publicists, marketers, shippers, the usual coterie of working schlubs of modern enterprise, and to rule them all, they need accountants (people who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing…)
They don’t need students.
They can get grunts with just enough learning from their H1B pool of cheap foreign labor.
Eventually everything you can know will be computerized (and cheaply, efficiently and instantly be reproducible, [ask an accountant how he feels about DRM and you’ll get a look like you’ve got blood oozing from your second head. DRM doesn’t apply to accountants.])
This is just too many kinds of stupid.
What do you expect?
Florida is our most fucked up state.
Its ’cause old people don’t care enough.
Florida is also shaped like a DICK which could explain the mindset of those who live in and visit that most fucked up state.
Think about it!
Spring break welcomes a ton of college kids every year looking to get fucked up or simply get fucked.
Someone once called it “gods waiting room” which, when you think about the religious connotations is pretty fucked up. Some might even say that the souls leaving Florida are like Earths SPERM!
It might also explain why Cuba decided to revolt rather than become another U.S. territory too. After all, who wants to be conquered by a bunch of homosexuals wearing nylon sport coats and thong swim suits? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
And is it any wonder that a lot of good football comes out of Florida? You’d be pissed off too if you got schooled in Florida – no one ever LEARNS anything!!!
Seems to me “the School” provided all the chemicals and knew and guided the response? Like a lot of chemicals, this just doesn’t smell right…. it really is…. just too stupid.
So What pretty much nailed it down. Toooooo many ways………..
Shows a real “rot” at our core.
Sad.
@Bobbo just because you might find this interesting:
“Zero-tolerance policies in the United States became widespread in 1994, after federal legislation required states to expel any student who brought a firearm to school for one year, or lose all federal funding.”
This may be a major component of why crime dropped steadily starting around this period of time. I wasn’t aware of this, but this same legislation may be why the student has to be expelled in this case.
…Or it could simply be the fact that we’re talking about PUBLIC EDUCATION!
Well HM–the course of Hooman Affairs is nothing if not complicated and sometimes surprising. I would be surprised if this simple minded single element explanation was at all accurate.
Mostly because school aged kiddies don’t commit much crime.
I do agree with your foundational point though that zero tolerance policies that are implemented in a zero common sense way are an abomination to what is required for the human spirit to take wing and soar.
take the ZERO TOLERANCE for guns at school. I can say I agree with that. As has been posted here, that policy does not mean that a child that turns in a gun found at school applies. Nor that making a gun image with ones hand and pointed finger applies. Or that drawing the picture of a gun applies. Or that saying the word gun applies. Zero Tolerance is not raised by these examples.
Only the stupidity of man.
lETS ASK..
does the school spay the yards for Bugs or Weeds?
LETS SUE THEM, for trying to poison the kids,,
In junior high (circa 1966), I brought a gasoline rocket into science class. I built rockets from scratch, mixing the propellant ingredients from the basic components. (zinc/sulfur; KNO3/sugar; KNO3,S,C; etc.) I injured myself several times (stupidly) and learned all kinds of stuff. I’m a better person for it. Now I would be a terrorist. This change in the zeitgeist easily allows one to understand how screwed up the R/D governance is. But the sheeple (by definition) will rehire them next time they have a chance.
Oops, forgot to mention that my use of caps was intentional and that my keyboard isn’t randomly stuck like yours apparently is.
I remember my HS/Chem class. Prof was a “hoot.”
One day by accident he dropped a beaker on the floor and it reacted with the concrete creating a white billowing cloud to come forth.
He just stood there dead pan as could be and asked: “Can anybody explain what is happening….” and we got it pretty quick. Then he asked what he should do which drew mostly a blank but as the air was becoming toxic he said: “Thats right, we need to neutralize the acid.”
One of the top learning days in my life….. and all from a terrorist or terrorist wanna be or terrorist sympathizer. Course…. back then, there weren’t any terrorists. How did that work?
Ha, ha.
What do you expect?
(sarc/on)
It says in the first sentence that she had a record AND she’s black.
(sarc/off)
You know Mextli–thats nice and clearly stated.
Note: nothing in parens.
OK
I would submit that minorities get disaffected more because they have to deal with bad schools, bureaucracy and government apathy/red-tape more.
Like a cyclical machine where the cause and effect end up fueling the cycle more.
You mean like liberals in a voting booth!
Are you concerned with politics or humanity?
If the former, you can read taht crap all over the internet.
I’d argue that know-nothing elitist liberals are probably formed from dealing with hopeless situations and instead of engaging the brain, decide to surrender and label themselves “superior” to the situation they walk away from.
Conservatives aren’t better — they write off those people as outside their voting block instead of caring.
Equally crappy …
Rules are the opposite of thinking and the opposite of caring.
We live in a society that feels free to not care and instead write up a new rule. It results in cynicism and dehumanization, most likely the most among minorities because big cities get it worst.
Rules are a necessary and unavoidable part of 2 or more people living within a stones throw of one another.
More focused: Bad/sloppy/zero tolerance Rules……..as you say.
I know thats what you mean.
At the national level it’s called the Constitution, but liberals seem to hate it.
Feel good rules as a result of liberal politics / policies.
Its the knee-jerk reaction of every politician*: pass a new law.
They what they do, that’s all they do.
They don’t give a toss about consistency, applicability or much of anything else.
Its the old problem of “When you’re a hammer, every problem looks like a nail; so what if it doesn’t work too good on screws.”
Kids learn about electioneering early: “When I’m elected to the student council, I promise lower taxes for everybody and free ice cream.”
*) Its called “administrative myopia“.
Knee-jerk reactionaries and their zero-tolerance policies? Who knows, but the author of the original article most definitely biased, should end up working for Fox, CNN or MSNBC.
Sorry, I meant the linked article on Alternet.
And your reason for that is because what again???
Just to be clear. It’s the SCHOOL imposing this stupid “zero tolerance” rule. NOT the reporters. Your logic makes no sense even though I tend to agree with the sentiment.
If anything, I would question the time, effort and motivation to even report this story. Because it’s not like we didn’t already suspect the state of “Fooled-Ya” and their public education system for doing crazy crap like this. It’s also not like Florida or any other state really has much of a CHOICE when Washington micro manages everything either.
…Meanwhile, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches did something today. Would you care to take a guess as to what that was? Care to ask a “journalist”?! (Could you be any more idiotic?!)
If you’re really stupid enough to expect news journalists to report on real stories then you probably should be aware of the number one rule in any news agency: Don’t report on anything (in Washington or anywhere else) if it doesn’t involve sex, money or something that will let the news machine sell the audience more floor wax, insurance, or boner pills.
If you read my post above, it might be federal law stripping them of funds if they don’t expel the student.
In this economy, schools are heavily dependent on that funding, if the above info is correct.
Hm: “might be federal law”, ” if the above info is correct.”
Really, you want people to read your post,… maybe.
What about the toxic chemicals that may leach into the ground and ground water tables. Better get mounds and mounds of Obama donor family members now EPA hacks involved.
Environmental protection studies – fines, charges. It will go on and on.
Yet what of all about the Boston Bombers Mounds and mounds of direct evidence – Russia calling Lists and lists
Janet – where are you we have not heard a peep about you. That is except for your new Google computer “Big Sis” 1984 is here
If you outlaw water bottles only outlaws will have water bottles.
Federal charges?
TSA VIPR team for each school bus!
Genuine Curiosity + Juvenile Mischievousness + Government-Run Education System == Criminal Activity
In my day, igniting hydrogen in a flask during chem lab was a rite of passage.
In my day, blowing up the chemistry lab and setting the teacher’s hair on fire was a prerequisite for a passing grade.
We were expected to know how to make incendiary devices from common materials found under the kitchen sink.
We were expected to know that mixing an acid cleaner with bleach generates chlorine gas.
I guess they don’t teach chemistry nowadays.
When I was a kid, we were allowed to have chemistry sets.
I know this is difficult to comprehend, but when I was a kid I had a gun.
Actually I had two guns, a handgun and a long rifle.
And I lived inthe suburbs.
In my day mixing plates of zinc and fuming nitric acid in a small beaker under a glass hood (making/releasing nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas) was a rite of passage, (and a rollicking good time. 🙂 )
The Guyver once again wanting to amuse us all by using his brain as a door stop says:
5/2/2013 at 7:36 am
Rules are a necessary and unavoidable part of 2 or more people living within a stones throw of one another.
At the national level it’s called the Constitution, /// Exactly so. Best example.
but liberals seem to hate it. /// Oh my goodness. Why did you shit on the Best example? That doesn’t make any sense at all. Shitting on every good idea you have. Prove me wrong: how do liberals seem to hate the Constitution? I can guess I suppose, but I don’t want to remove your opportunity to learn for yourself, to apologize, to become a thinking person. Hmmmm….. what exactly did I just shit on myself?
More focused: Bad/sloppy/zero tolerance Rules……..as you say.
Feel good rules as a result of liberal politics / policies. ////// Actually, I’m wondering about: “Where does the impulse for these ZERO tolernace policies come from?” Zero Tolerance. Inflexible. Unimaginative. Shall we take that Political Attitude Test all together? Should we snoogums?
Ha, ha. But I dither with the obvious.
Silly Hoomans.
They are going to be awfully busy chasing down all those who have posted YouTube videos of plastic bottles with dry ice + water/baking soda + vinegar/Mentos + Diet Coke/ etc., etc., etc.
I’ll see Uncle Dave’s post on Criminal 16yo Science Students and raise with the criminal conduct of selling “Kids Guns.” In this case, a 22 called “a Cricket.” I hadn’t run into that concept before: kids gun.
Never too early to teach kids about zero tolerance or their constitutional rights. Five year old shoots his two year old sister.
Gun nuts.
http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22386105
And for some unknown F@#*ING reason the single-shot rifle was LOADED and sitting in the corner of the room. So the 5 yr old picks it up when the mother goes outside to feed the dogs and fatally shoots his 2 yr old baby sister.
Why not just leave rat poison shaped like cookies laying around the house?
The Polk County School Board has been pushing intelligent design in the classrooms. They probably thought she was a witch.
Actually, all the kids at that school learned an extremely valuable lesson from this incident. They learned not to trust authority and that in this world you WILL get punished even if completely innocent.
I can’t think of a more valuable lesson as these kids prepare for life in the real world.
Yes, it is sad.
And, no, it’s nothing particularly new.
American must step up and lead the world in stamping out terrorist while they are young! There is no minimum age at co-ed Guantanamo Bay
detentionpermanent prison camp!Why hasn’t she been rendered by the CIA and treated as any extrajudicial prisoner of the United States?
As prisoners at Guantanamo die of hunger, they need to be replaced! American fairness and justice demands this! Our American Security Complex, Congressional largess, donors, lobbyist and the American Public demand this!
Look how extremely effective the NSA warrant-less surveillance has been to preemptively stop terrorism! We need more, we need the congress to pass Patriot Act II and Patriot Act III!
Liberals, Civil rights Activist, ACLU, scholars, Professors, books, whistle blowers … all have hindered/stopped our government from effectively protecting US. These people who are hindrances to efficient government are lefty communist and should be deported to Mexico or Canada!
Our politicians and government officials are wrong to think they took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and observe its Laws.
Bush is correct his job is to protect Americans, not the Constitution!
Nothing like school to remind you NOT to think outside of the box. She should have stuck to a volcano and dry ice unless dry ice has become a WMD.
When somebody tells her that dry ice is CO2 and that its a global warming gas, she can just reply that global warming is just hoax, just like evolution, plate tectonics, or the so-called theory of gravity.
Or she can just switch to water and baking soda, like they used to use in those little submarines … in the 60s…
We can only hope you all the election time air time you need to show your lunacy, so people can see why everybody needs to vote “d” to save the country!
Liberals have already dumbed down education in public schools, then refused to support vouchers so black kids could go to a better school. It’s important to keep those black kids from getting educated, and has been for over two hundred years for liberals. Now they are just not allowed to be as obvious about it, where previously they simply passed laws saying it is forbidden to teach a slave to read.
This is important, as liberals’ elections are based on having low information voters.
MikeN says:
“or liberals. Now they are just not allowed to be as obvious about it, where previously they simply passed laws saying it is forbidden to teach a slave to read.”
MikeN you’re so full of it; why are Repukes so evil?
In Revolutionary times, the conservative position was to remain loyal to England.
It was liberal Enlightenment philosophers intellectuals promoting all men are born with inalienable natural rights.
Slavery was an institution to be “conserved,” and gun protected by southerners; but, it was liberally educated and open-minded Americans and northern abolitionist who fought for Africans to be born with the same natural rights as Europeans.
It was the liberal North that outlawed slavery and the conservative South that first fired on Fort Sumter to keep it.
The Emancipation Proclamation was “anything but conservative”, which freed any remaining slaves!
As with today, the North is still enlightened and more progressive then the more conservative South!
Liberals will happily cheer along to Django Unchained, but liberals are still trying to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. It is the thing they fear most, because they were the slaveholders.
Oh, the humanity, the horrible crime this girl committed was practicing Science!
To Repukes, all science is witchcraft.
Any science scares Repukes so bad, they shit themselves then call the police! She was lucky she wasn’t holding a bag of skittles; else they would have shot her!
Bartow High School, the oldest high school in the Polk county, located in South Central Florida Ridge in the I-4 corridor which is considered the most conservative county in the corridor!
What can you expect from evil conservative zealots?
Conservatives only know science must be condemned and harmless events must become nightmares and conservative must force an anti-science religious indoctrination in public schools!
>To Repukes, all science is witchcraft.
We’ll see how liberals react to the new study that is a followup to the old study that Medicaid vs uninsured shows no health benefits.
Before that we had John Lott’s study that more guns produces less crime. He gave his data out to liberals so they could respond to his study. Later, Lott lost his data in a computer crash. When he asked the liberals for copies of his data, they refused.
Repukes doing a study really? What you really mean they did a bible study!
And now the states with the least freedom are all blue. What happened? Where did you go wrong? In theory Marx was a liberal. The constitution of Stalinist Russia was I’m told pretty liberal in the old meaning of the word but in practice everybody lived in fear and tried to do what the government said. What is it about liberals that cause them to vilify everybody that disagrees with them? Why do they have such contempt for others in practice? Why so egomaniac? Why the need to walk in lockstep? I don’t get it. I started off admiring liberals but as I came to know them I realized they were the least liberal people on the planet with absolutely no tolerance of dissenting views! To me the title liberal is now a total oxymoron.
Not many people call Louisiana free. The only thing free in Louisiana is the chemical poison they are trying to kill citizens with!
Who would call Texas free? The only thing free in Texas is the free fertilizer from a deadly plant explosion. And the Texas dummies are still trying to figure it out. Most people doubt they will get it right!
Missouri free if you like free police bullets they use to kill a skittish but friendly dog.
There is nothing free about a state ordering teachers to teach a state religion “Creation science” in public schools. No differently than Stalin enforced school propaganda!
That scary bitch needs to be sent to Guantanamo and get her to squeel on where the others are
The problem with these people is that they are total cowards squared, cubed and raised to the tenth power. They act like panic stricken children and in my view they are totally unfit to be in positions in authority especially when it comes to children.
Wow, I did this very same thing in my Chem 2 class in Daytona Beach, FL in 10th grade back in 92. Only I was inside and the cap blew to the other side of the classroom and hit my teacher in her breast. My teacher laughed it off and said to the class “thats why you dont mix certain chemicals”. Today I would be a terrorist and thrown in jail for assault. What the hell is a matter with this country.
Once again, the wisdom of allowing idiots and ideologues to control public education is called into question.
What will it take to remove these people from authority and restore sanity to our schools?
Is anyone paying attention? Bueller? Anyone?
That’s not all. Just for posting the article, this website has been labeled an attack site.
Not a joke, it’s what Firefox told me.
It’s gotta be true then.
HEY ADMIN !!!!!! THIS IS BEING REPORTED AS AN ATTACK SITE BY FIREFOX AND GOOGLE . YOU SHOULD PROBABLY LOOK INTO IT
If you are discussing hardcore, criminal and felony right in the title, it might trigger a few filters.
Somehow Dvorak got on the attack site listing.
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Same thing I got but it checks OK with Norton safe web.
Thats interesting. I enjoy the specifics of the reasons DU got flagged and DO appreciate Google providing this service. Your explanation though doesn’t say enough. Has DU ever harbored malicious code that infects a computer? What you say above is that DU affected other domains…not computers.
Unless you have further details, I’m left with the suspicion that DU hasn’t done anything except carry some code that does something that nobody here cares about….and neither should Google? Like…what? Maintain our cookies so we don’t have to log in?
General warnings are not helpful.
Specific warnings are ….. rarely given.
It’s stopbadware.org that’s blocking this page. You’d need to get in touch with them to resolve it.