{"id":945,"date":"2004-06-22T03:58:03","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T08:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/milk-or-blood\/"},"modified":"2004-06-22T03:58:03","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T08:58:03","slug":"milk-or-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/milk-or-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"milk or blood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a couple weeks ago,  we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channeloklahoma.com\/education\/3399339\/detail.html\" class=\"broken_link\">learned<\/a> that drinking milk (to excess) is punishable by dismissal in american high schools.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A North Carolina science teacher whose milk experiment brought complaints after some students drank milk until they threw up has been dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The Johnston County,  N.C., school board voted 5-1 Tuesday to end Jeff Ferguson&#8217;s contract seven months after he was suspended over the experiment. Ferguson had taught chemistry and physics at Smithfield-Selma Senior High School for three years<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>on the other hand (and on the other side of the world), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/06\/21\/japan.blood.reut\/index.html\" class=\"broken_link\">it&#8217;s ok<\/a> to have students write apology letters in their own blood &#8211; as long as you apologize.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Japanese teenager was forced by his teacher to write an apology in blood after dozing in the classroom, the school&#8217;s principal said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He said the boy was back in school, and neither he nor his parents had asked to switch teachers. The teacher involved is expected to resume classes in a few days, Dan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>hmmmm.  i wonder what would happen if i had some kids test some <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/the_army_discovers_oobleck.html\">oobleck armor<\/a> in class&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[half of this from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/06\/21\/a_students_scarlet_l.html\" class=\"broken_link\">boingboing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a couple weeks ago, we learned that drinking milk (to excess) is punishable by dismissal in american high schools. A North Carolina science teacher whose milk experiment brought complaints after some students drank milk until they threw up has been dismissed. The Johnston County, N.C., school board voted 5-1 Tuesday to end Jeff Ferguson&#8217;s contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}