Assuming it’s real, how could such a record be anywhere close to acceptable? I can’t remember anyone injuring themselves throughout every lab project in high school and university.
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UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 7 months ago
Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Right, imagine putting up those kinda numbers in any sort of workplace, OSHA would be shutting it down.
xkforce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tbh these numbers dont surprise me much given my experiences as a lab coordinator. The highschool students were far far more prone to mistakes and accidents than the college students were and those were the gifted students. Theyd do stuff like leave broken glassware and glass shards in the dirty glassware bins for me to find. One tried to cause an explosion by turning the gas on for all the bunsen burners and walking out. (Instructor reprimanded for leaving them in the lab unattended, student was expelled)
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 7 months ago
That sounds genuinely shocking to me, in what country? Do you not have supervisors for the high school students? At uni you shouldn’t need much supervision, but for teenagers that’s mandatory.
refalo@programming.dev 7 months ago
I bet kids saw the chart and took it as a challenge.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Middle school science class. We were supposed to be boiling water over an alcohol burner. The kid across from me was getting frustrated because his wasn’t boiling yet. I took a look, and it just looked a little off, so I asked him if he was sure he was boiling water. He gave me a strange look and said that he thought we were boiling the alcohol. Just as he said that, his whole setup went up in flames to the ceiling and all over the table. I’m pretty sure he lost some eyebrows. And needed some new pants.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Who the fuck almost died in second period?
TassieTosser@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Must be the person who put hot glass under cold water and learned something about thermal differentials.
mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s a great prank to do when someone is sleeping - they wouldn’t know about it when looking in the mirror but then go outside and everyone is clutching their pearls
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
protip: hot glass looks the same as cold glass
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not always, but once it starts looking different we’ve moved past asking what degree the burn is and into “do you keep the appendage that touched it?”
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 7 months ago
False. Really hot glass would glow red, and sometimes cold glass would have condensation depending on the humidity.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Those are extremes. Hot glass that can easily cause severe burns with a quick touch often looks just like room temp glass.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yep. I’ve told many people this.
I’ve also succumbed to confusing that schlenk connector that was just in a flame with the cold one.
snooggums@midwest.social 7 months ago
I wanna know about the near death experience!
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
The seventh period had at least 2 student dead.
jlow@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Maybe even three!
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 7 months ago
2nd period goes hard
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nah they are barely waking up. I know I was.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s what I posted above “only half of second period is actually awake”
jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
If you look at 7th period, it looks like someone erased a bunch of tally marks in Near Death Experiences. I’m wondering if they were downgraded to just burns as part of a cover up.
nifty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To me this looks like early morning tiredness and afternoon tiredness, while 4th period is in the sweet spot, like maybe immediately after lunch
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I would say immediately before lunch. After makes me sleepy
nifty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Depends on what you eat, not all foods make you sleepy after lunch
affiliate@lemmy.world 7 months ago
the teacher is the one doing the real lab experiment here
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Plot twist! 4th period only has one student.
SomeBoyo@feddit.de 7 months ago
Might also be the teacher wondering why there are so many injuries and doing the experiment himself.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Jesus! The worst I ever had was in 9th grade biology I accidentally broke a couple test tubes. I couldn’t imagine burning or cutting myself by accident or having a near death experience. 4th period would be my type of class because I wouldn’t feel comfortable at all anywhere near the other periods if they’re all getting injured.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I sort of managed a near death experience. Not actually life threatening but it was a good show. Basically same lab, trying to boil different clear liquids out of a solution. You do it once and record the plateaus, then do it again and switch tubes at each plateau to separate them. Well we started heating it the second time and it hit the first boiling temperature, but nothing was appearing in the condensing tube. It stayed that way for a minute or so, then the temp started going up _past_the first boiling point with nothing having actually boiled out. I turned to ask my teacher wtf was going on, then the rubber top with the tube in it exploded off the test tube and the resulting spray of gas/mist caught fire and created a huge fireball.
Case@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Cut myself with a microscope slide. Didn’t realize the lens would drop far enough to break it. Whoops. Ended up nicking my finger getting the slide off.
My proudest science lab injury though, was with a plastic butter knife. Don’t ask me how I managed, but I did. It was an ugly cut too.
Xanis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I grabbed a hot beaker stand in 8th grade. To this day I wonder if the resulting shock gave me the ability to fuck with something internally at will. When I try it feels a bit like when I had electricity running through me.
plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
When I see this meme I always remember the glass rod I stuck in my thumb when we learned to do some basic lab glassmaking.
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I suspect 7th period is not the teachers favorite class
yemmly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m disappointed no one collected them all.
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t worry, it isn’t real. Why would they make the cuts column when there were no cuts until third period? And you can’t figure the chart just started there, and they filled out the information from second, since the second period tally marks are in different color markers.
stillitcomes@lemm.ee 7 months ago
He could also have just put down the three types of injuries that happened most often from past years teaching this experiment.
refalo@programming.dev 7 months ago
you must be fun at parties
Sizzler@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
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Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Early periods, kids are tired. Late periods, kids are distracted because freedom is near.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 months ago
Early periods, kids are tired.
Maybe going to school at nine instead of 8 o clock would help, since most people are of owl (late) chronotype. Studies have shown, marks improve. There’s neurological and genetical proof in science. But can’t have that, since work and the world is run by the early birds.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Also, the blithe euphoria of lunch lasts less than an hour before the inescapable reality of your current situation creeps steadily back in.
nephs@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
We don’t talk about 5th and 6th period.
Xerxos@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
With a sigh he cleans the up the tally for the 7th period. “Can’t call it near death anymore”
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Nah. Just that no one’s apt to fuck around near lunchtime.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Hot glass looks like cold glass.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’d say it’s the opposite. 4th period knows how to party responsibly
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I guess some classes won’t learn how to heat stir sticks over a Bunsen burner to make glass spiral earrings and spiral rings. College Chem class allowed us to buy extra stir sticks and responsibly use our free time after labs were completed.
nohaybanda@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Ooof, my lab’s safety officer would have loved this. And by love I mean gone absolutely ballistic.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My theory:
4th Prof everyone just wants to go home so they get er done without horsin’ around
The other periods they have to be there anyways so lots of horsin’ round to make the time go by faster
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
4th period knows how to pass
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
And first group party too hard .
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Periods 2, 3, 7, and 8 are Great British Bake Off on meat pie day. Period 4 is Top Chef.
audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Teacher here. I can explain this as: at any given time only about 1/2 the class is listening to instructions. I’m guessing that 4th period is a smaller class, but they did well because the teacher could better monitor what they were doing. I’d be willing to bet that 7th period is the largest class.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Half of the students in second period probably aren’t even awake yet. I normally wasn’t awake/functional until about 3-4th period. Half the time I would sleep through second period 😂
xantoxis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This whiteboard all by itself could be used as data that students need to be allowed more sleep.
Arondeus@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Plot twist: 4th period was the teacher’s prep period. The teacher burned themself while trying to work out how to keep students from burning themselves.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 7 months ago
Student here.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I blame lunch time.