From: Monona Rossol <0000030664c37427-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Beacon HS student burned in botched chemistry experiment awarded nearly $60M
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 16:30:49 +0000
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Demystify:
Thank you, Yaritza. Well said. And add to the "science students and science teachers," ALL the teachers and students who use potentially harmful substances and equipment: Art, theater, agriculture, architecture, engineering, and the lot.
It may be different in your area, but where I live the school board's job is comparable to a CEO's job- raise funds, approve building improvements, and approve high level policy
changes. Much like a CEO, the board doesn't know who needs training nor what kind of training. The board assumes the superintendent and principals are providing adequate training for the teachers.
To make things worse, there is a false notion amongst the public (principals included) that a degree in science implies knowledge of experiment safety. Hence, the importance
of teaching safety at the college level. In my opinion, laboratory safety should be a required course for both science students and science teachers.
Thank you,
Yaritza Brinker
260..827.5402
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Hopefully, this huge jury award and the publicity generated by it will finally bring a decent amount of nationwide publicity to this ongoing problem, maybe enough
to make school boards sit up and take notice of what might happen if they don't properly train and supervise their science teachers.
Neil Edwards
Laboratory Manager
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry LIU Post
Brookville, NY
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Oh they got it right. Blaming the board of Education who should have provided the rules. Once in a while the jury sorts through all the facts and figures it out.
We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do everything with nothing.
Teresa Arnold paraphrased from Konstantin Josef Jire=C4=8Dek (1854 - 1918)
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