I couldn't agree more:
I can’t name a single scientist or engineer, who hadn’t blown up, ripped apart, disassembled something at home or otherwise cause a big ruckus at school all in the name of curiosity, myself included. Science is not a clean. It is very messy and it is riddled with mistakes and mishaps.
I wonder if she was experimenting because she wanted to actually do something in science class and not merely be lectured to and complete worksheets. I wonder if she was bored or just wanted to see for herself how x and y react to each other.
Science is fun! I spend months traveling around the world studying wild animals in Africa. I have friends who do chemistry and solve crimes and who live on sea vessels for weeks studying plastic trash islands in the ocean. But the average high school student would have no idea of how exciting science could be because we’ve taken the action out of science.
I'm also reminded of the title poem for
John Grandits' "Technically, It's not my fault" which is also (helpfully) on the cover of the book.
I think that most parents here can probably (ruefully) identify with kids like this.
This book is also the source for my daughter's disdainful amusement at what she refers to as "chicken-brain" answers on multiple choice assessments, incidentally. A search in the book turns up the page, which is also hilarious for parents and their HG kiddos who have suffered through mind-numbingly inappropriate placements.
