Just when you think you've heard it all.....

[nickyw]

Here we are half way through term 4 and I was just in a yr9 (yes yr9) class helping set up various prac stations and a group of YR9 girls came up to me and said

"Oy Miss whats a beaker?"

I dont know whether to laugh or cry, What do these kids take in?????

[Loopy]

And to think, these are potentially the people who will look after us in old people's homes! Really scary stuff...
Lou.

[Slartibartfast]

Better than a staff member I suppose. I had a teacher ask what a round and a flat bottomed flask was once.

[Ocker]

Hey Richard did you tell him, it is a flourence flask

[Slartibartfast]

No, that would just have confused him. He has enough trouble grasping roll call.

[Robdean]

I remember a teacher (male) at a previous school asking me for a curette! Can you believe it?? After a process of elimination and guesswork I found that he actually needed a crucible! So pleased we didn't have to procede with the curette!

[Loopy]

I dunno... sounds like a perfect candidate for experimental purposes... No brains no pains...
Lou.

[Ocker]

A crucible! Silly me, I would have given him a Burette, or a deflagrating spoon might have done the original job

[sunray18]

I have been laughing here with tears running down my cheeks... a curette!
I agree with Ocker - i would have thought burette...
But come to think of it .. hey - lets all have an In-service atyour place and we can SEE how to do a curette on the teacher!!!!!

[Ocker]

Ooooh! yer
You who I have in mind, She has just come back from 2 months LSL

[sunray18]

Well - Ocker , i WAS thinking of the MALE teacher who asked for it originally

[Ocker]

Go back to your Bio books thats physically not possible

[smiley]

Well "No duh" as the students say.