Credentials?

[asterroc]

WTF?! What were this person's credentials? A substitute teacher in a high school bio class had students pricking their fingers to take a blood sample, and then pass the needle on to someone else! If this isn't a good reason to require all teachers to have degrees in their subjects, including substitutes, I don't know what is. I don't even get why they'd let a sub run a lab anyway. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!

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[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

1. OMGWTFBBQ
2. These are teenagers, not children. They should know better. WHY ARE THEY SO STUPID TOO‽ Public schools present HIV awareness videos and the like from elementary school on.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

2 - the same reason those authority psychology experiments (subject ordered to shock a person) were so ... shocking. everyone's used to obeying authority, even when they know better. people in positions of power HAVE to use that power responsibly. it's really damned hard for us to do anything about it if they don't.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Those HIV awareness movies probably only mention abstinence. Nothing about blood.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I said something similar below too.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

2 - (a) Not every school or state does so. Did you forget who's in the White House stlll and how he pulled federal funding from anything other than abstinence-only programs?

(b) Even those students who see these things don't necessarily pay attention or retain any of it. Public schools present books and the like from elementary school on, and yet I've still met college students who don't have any reading comprehension skills.

[q10.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure what comparable safety risk arises with, say, substitute econ teachers. i think it's a point about public health and lab safety protocols in general.

[q10.livejournal.com]

the clip you link to doesn't say anything about the teacher instructing them to share needles. it just says he didn't stop them. still bad news, but seems like a mighty big difference.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

You are correct. I'd noticed at the time that I posted this that the link from the CNN front page was worded to imply that the teacher did actually tell them to share needles, but the article didn't say so. The link is no longer on the CNN front page, so I can't quote it at you.

The article says "the substitute teacher didn't give a reason for why he allowed them to share needles" - it isn't clear whether the sub forgot to tell them not to share, told them but didn't watch their actions and missed that they were sharing, consciously (maliciously) watched them sharing but didn't take any actions to stop it, or even was unaware of the fact that sharing needles is a health risk. Any of these are bad, though some clearly are worse.

The affiliate's webpage linked on the right doesn't have a text article, and a Google search didn't turn anything else up on it.