Kansas Educator Borrows Teaching Method From Junkies

From Salina, Kansas (where one stops for gas and a quick lunch along I-70 on the way from Kansas City to Denver):

SALINA, Kansas (AP) -- A high school science teacher was suspended for allowing students to use the same instrument to draw blood from their fingers as part of a class project, district officials said Tuesday.

About 50 juniors and seniors in two science classes at Salina High School South used the same lancet, or small pin, to prick their fingers on Monday, said Carol Pitts, spokeswoman for the Salina school district.

Parents, say to your children, "If a crazy science teacher asks you and your classmates to pass around a needle and prick your fingers, grab the needle, say, 'No way, crazy science teacher,' and walk briskly to the principal's office." (Running with a bloody needle isn't wise.)