re: #265 freetoken

School administrators can be amazingly daft:

Science teacher’s suspension spurs petition drive

Of course they look like weapons - almost everything in physics has something to do with weapons.

Idiocy.

Many science fair and Science Olympiad projects could be classified as weapons, except they aren’t. The boy in the photo (named Asa — great name!) probably built something like a rail gun — the article is not too clear — but on a small scale. The other project using compressed air to launch “a small object” is probably less dangerous than a Daisy air rifle.

I hope Mr Schiller can get back to his classes soon. His AP students sound like they are freaking out. AP exams are next month.