My two cents and I'm sure some people with agree with me:
high school kids shouldn't deal with stuff that their science teacher
doesn't know ***t about. Darnit.... I was thinking we had to teach more
science to kids in school... now I'm thinking we ought to teach more science
to school teachers!!!!
Vero
"Dilworth" <dilworth at megsinet.net> wrote in message
news:38D2DFFA.2C730FB4 at megsinet.net...
> While I think the teachers' intentions are good, it's obvious that the
teachers
> themselves have no clue what microbiologists deal with in the "real world"
i.e.
> specimen growth, pathogenicity, and disposal problems. A year ago or so,
a
> student about the same age (or maybe he was younger) wanted to grow Staph.
> aureus for a project. I'm totally amazed at the ignorance on the
teachers'
> parts of what students could run into when running these "projects."
Perhaps
> we should copy teachers' newgroups and post our beefs regarding science
> projects at the high school level. I haven't looked at the newsgroups
lately;
> there must be something for science teachers out there.
>> Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP)
> Microbiology in hiatus
>>> >
> > > >I'm doing a project for school in which I will grow bacteria and then
> > > >see what grew, why that particular kind(s) grew, etc. The problem is,
I
> > > >don't know the first thing about growing bacteria. What do I grow it
in?
> > (snip)
> > > Just out of curiosity what level class is this that give syou such
> > > pitiful instruction? Anyone worried that you might infect yourself
> > > with something that you would be better off without?.........
> >
> > As a teacher of Microbiology I find this sort of question frightening -
> > the idea of some ignorant kid mucking around with bacteria in their
> > bedroom appalls me............
> > How will she/he dispose of the bacterial cultures - if s/he is incapable
> > of reading the first page of a Microbiology textbook?
> >
> >
>
