Teacher sacked for shooting pupil - Polidicks

[url]http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/02/01/wolverhampton-teacher-sacked-for-shooting-pupil-with-pellet-gun/[/url] [quote]Richard West, a popular science teacher at St Peter’s Collegiate School, was conducting an experiment involving a pellet gun when the freak accident occurred. Now youngsters at the school have launched a campaign to get him re-instated – led by the 17-year-old who was on the receiving end of the shooting.[/quote]

Your url tags are broken. [URL]http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/02/01/wolverhampton-teacher-sacked-for-shooting-pupil-with-pellet-gun/[/URL] wow, that was fast. I'd also add that sacking the fellow is over-reacting and a complete disgrace.

I expected nothing less from Wolverhampton.

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2550493/Physics-teacher-sacked-accidentally-shooting-17-year-old-pupil-leg-classroom-experiment.html[/url] If I edit it, the whole text gets deleted

is this for real

It seems like it was blown out of proportion and the mother flipped. [quote]‘The bullet travelled through the first ten or 11 sheets, then it must have hit a desk below and cannoned into me,’ he said. ‘It was just a momentary pain, like when you walk into the corner of a table. I was left with just a scratch.’ Following the accident in November, Mr West was ‘extremely concerned and apologetic’ and the experiment was halted. Ben mentioned the incident to his mother that night, and she spoke to the school.[/quote] The kid doesn't even seem to give a shit

[QUOTE=elowin;43773318]is this for real[/QUOTE] This is typical of modern day thinking; knee jerk reactions to something like "but what if he seriously injured or killed somebody? he did dangerous thing, he is sacked!" have become disturbingly common of late.

What the shit is this? My teacher shot me with a paint-ball gun

[QUOTE=Jodern;43773378]What the shit is this? My teacher shot me with a paint-ball gun[/QUOTE] thats only cause you was trying to date his daughter

[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;43773344] The kid doesn't even seem to give a shit[/QUOTE] [quote]Now youngsters at the school have launched a campaign to get him re-instated – [b]led by the 17-year-old who was on the receiving end of the shooting.[/b][/quote] Retarded teachers/administration.

Imagine having a job where one of the terms for employment were "do not for the sake of your life do anything that [I]might [/I]upset overreactive parents"

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43773361]This is typical of modern day thinking; knee jerk reactions to something like "but what if he seriously injured or killed somebody? he did dangerous thing, he is sacked!" have become disturbingly common of late.[/QUOTE] one of my teachers literally threw a pair of scissors at someone in my parallel class back in primary school although it didn't actually hit anyone

Good on the kid to realize it was a mistake and stand up for the teacher.

[QUOTE=demoguy08;43773409]Imagine having a job where one of the terms for employment were "do not for the sake of your life do anything that [I]might [/I]upset overreactive parents"[/QUOTE] 'One Million Moms' is already filing a lawsuit against you for insinuating they'd overreact

[QUOTE=dai;43773446]'One Million Moms' is already filing a lawsuit against you for insinuating they'd overreact[/QUOTE] and the One Million Dads are on standby to beat up anybody who might insinuate the same as well :v:

Well clearly it was a mistake, if anything he deserved to be suspended for like...a week just because the experiment is actually a fair deal dangerous (if he put like a metal sheet somewhere along the line to make sure that the pellet would stop, then everything would be okay.), I mean what if it hit someone in the eye? I know it didn't, but it could've, and this story would be completely different.

[QUOTE=be;43773496]Well clearly it was a mistake, if anything he deserved to be suspended for like...a week just because the experiment is actually a fair deal dangerous (if he put like a metal sheet somewhere along the line to make sure that the pellet would stop, then everything would be okay.), I mean what if it hit someone in the eye? I know it didn't, but it could've, and this story would be completely different.[/QUOTE] Reading the title I assumed it meant it hit someone in the eye. Really glad that's not the case.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;43773562]Reading the title I assumed it meant it hit someone in the eye. Really glad that's not the case.[/QUOTE] What? ... [Quote]pupil[/quote] You bastard

I'm not entirely sure this was the safest experiment you could carry out in a classroom, but a verbal warning and a discontinuing of the experiment would've been a better response than fucking firing the guy.

[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;43773886]I'm not entirely sure this was the safest experiment you could carry out in a classroom, but a verbal warning and a discontinuing of the experiment would've been a better response than fucking firing the guy.[/QUOTE] I wonder what they'd say about the experiment with the bed of nails, the hammer, and the concrete block.

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43773908]I wonder what they'd say about the experiment with the bed of nails, the hammer, and the concrete block.[/QUOTE] what is the hypothesis

So, if the kid didn't care about getting shot in the leg then who told administration that it happened? We got a rat

[QUOTE=Venezuelan;43773961]what is the hypothesis[/QUOTE] That it sure makes a hell of a cake.

[QUOTE=Venezuelan;43773961]what is the hypothesis[/QUOTE] It's to show how pressure is measured as a force over an area. So the weight of the person on the bed is a force over the surface area of their underside, which isn't enough pressure for the nails to puncture them.

[QUOTE=Venezuelan;43773961]what is the hypothesis[/QUOTE] 0.4 pounds of force per square inch of skin can be tolerated without the needles penetrating it. If you lie down on a bed of nails designed in this way, you won't get a sieve for a back in the process. Even better, the inertial force so provided can ensure that you can place a concrete block on your body, while lying down on this bed of nails, and if you strike it with a hammer, the skin not only remains unbroken, the block will break without harm being done to whoever volunteered for it.

Im shocked out by the amount of people reading this article over the shooting in russia post

My 85 year old Bio teacher took off his shirt in class to show how fucking ripped he was. He would also throw chalk and erasers at people. Loved the guy to death. but ffs a little BB bounces off and hits someone in the leg and the boards in an uproar? Fucking ridiculous. I seriously doubt it broke any skin. If anyone should be fired it should be my senior year religion teacher who advocated that the 9/11 attacks were justified and peaceful.

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43774000]0.4 pounds of force per square inch of skin can be tolerated without the needles penetrating it. If you lie down on a bed of nails designed in this way, you won't get a sieve for a back in the process. Even better, the inertial force so provided can ensure that you can place a concrete block on your body, while lying down on this bed of nails, and if you strike it with a hammer, the skin not only remains unbroken, the block will break without harm being done to whoever volunteered for it.[/QUOTE] oh, I've never heard of the concrete and hammer part so I thought you were making a weird funny science threat :v:

Reminds me of a story about my former high school Psych teacher. Crazy guy, but awesome teacher. He's the type of guy who would walk right into the men's bathroom , notice that there are two guys on opposite ends of the urinals, and then get right in the middle urinal and start talking to them both. He pushed boundaries and turned the uncomfortable and uneasy topics of psychology into actual interesting discussions. Then one day he jokingly puts a kid in a headlock and makes him pass out. He was suspended, but he [i]still kept his job afterwards[/i]. Everybody understood it was an accident, including the kid who got choked.

[QUOTE=be;43773496]... (if he put like a metal sheet somewhere along the line to make sure that the pellet would stop, then everything would be okay.) ...[/QUOTE] A metal sheet would be much more likely to deflect the projectile somewhere dangerous. The whole point of using a cardboard backing is to catch and then gradually slow it down.