Science experiment gone bad

[RoJoHen]

i bet if she had a muslim name there would be a lot less sympathy for her.

I think you seriously need to gain some perspective.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Cool!

 

[MacLeod]

I was going to say it sounds like an over-reaction, but it seems as if common sense has prevailed.

 

[gturner]

If she'd have instead reacted concentrated nitric acid with glycerin, then mixed that with sawdust and sold it to mining companies in rolled paper tubes, she could've used the profits to fund a set yearly awards in sciences like chemistry and physics.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I got an email from change.org (who hosted that petition a bunch of us signed) telling me that charges against Kiera have been dropped. This is confirmed by a quick Google search.

Looks like she also scored a NASA scholarship, so sometimes there is a little justice in the world.

Outstanding.

 

[Sector 7]

With all the crap I did in school and at home mixing up stuff just to see what would happen, I should have been branded a terrorist and public enemy number one.

For fuck's sake.

Being the top chemistry student in my school [I still have the certificate], when I read about nitroglycerin I just had to try it. Unfortunately, I did it in the football practice field. My punishment was after school detention, during which I filled in the roughly 4'x4'x4' hole and re-sodded the grass.

Gilbert & Sullivan wrote it best, "Let the punishment fit the crime, let the punishment fit the crime..."

Later in life, much thanks to my clean record, I became well-versed in ordinance as a US Navy SEAL.

There's a petition on change.org to have the charges dropped.

Ah, she's Black. No wonder. Wouldn't want a Black girl to have an interest in Science. That would be too much like the 21st Century. I signed the petition.

Unfortunately, the principal refuses to let her attend school and losing ground with her grades. I am happy to see NASA sees her potential.

America, land of the free... unless you are black, gay or some other minority.

 

[MacLeod]

Yes but Schools can discipline their students, which is were the matter belonged not in the hands of the Police and courts.