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.