The advantages of teaching at a small Christian school

[Jevyod]

I teach at a Christian school with about 90 students. I teach grades 4 and 5. We are currently going through a chapter in science that talks about solids, liquids, and gasses. It also talked a little bit about how metals will also turn to liquid when heated enough. You know where this is going don't you Being the teacher I am, I thought most of these students probably never saw anything other than water melt!! So I got permission from the principal, and on Wednesday I brought in my lee pot, some lead, and a mold, and showed them how I make bullets!!!!! We talked about how the molecules change as the lead heats up, and how you can then pour it into a different form!! The students were all enamored with the process. I then gave them all a 45-70 bullet that I had made earlier. Powdercoated green, and with a copper gas check, they looked pretty good. Well you guessed it, siblings of my students saw them, and they wanted one as well! And there is a chance I will get to do the same thing for several other rooms. Some older students walked by when we were doing it, and they wanted to stay and watch! (we were outside). So their teacher ask me if I would be willing to do it for his room as well, and I said I wouldSome of the guys were very interested! I am sure the parents heard about it at home! Ah the blessings of teaching at a Christian school!!!!

[lightman]

Good on you! You managed a way to teach a lesson and make it interesting, and maybe introduce some new blood into casting. It don't get much better!

[WILCO]

Nice story. Thanks for sharing.

[ph4570]

Very cool.

[dilly]

50 years from now, those children will be talking about how the country has gone to pot, and when they were kids they learned to cast bullets in elementary school.


That sounds like a good time and something that would really engage the kids.

[mold maker]

It's such a shame that in public schools (our tax money at work) such ideas are so PC censored.
One of my Grand Daughters was reprimanded for showing off a boolit she helped me cast and swage.
No one would have known if it hadn't been a center of attention with lots of her class mates.

[Ben]

That's great.

I hope I don't see you on CNN.
This is the kind of thing they love to get their hands on.

As great a story as this is, when CNN gets finished with it, it won't be.

[smokeywolf]

I think it's a great science demonstration. I'd pay money to see this done in our local California public schools.

[Echo]

A big way to go!

[jmort]

Great to hear this. Thank God for teachers like you and schools that want kids to learn.

[bradh]

Great to hear this. Thank God for teachers like you and schools that want kids to learn.

SUPER story and good for you! But them was boolits not bullets.... Science at work...

[Wots]

Like school used to be. Been a while but as I recall schooling, it was more hands on. Shop, dissecting frogs, field trips to various industries, corporal punishment etc.

[Charley]

As far as I can see, the only "science" taught currently in public schools is the alleged science behind man caused climate change. Might as well be back in the 1500s.

[Fergie]

Very cool story!

I remember having a particularly interesting Chem teacher that allowed taught us about thermite, metal salts and their color and some other cools experiments, but this would have taken it.

Sadly though, at a public school, the mere discussion would have had you fired. I recall a budding gangbanger at my middle school bringing a bunch of 9mm rounds to school, and passing them out to kids "in case he needed them later." He gave one to me, I kept my mouth shut at school, let my Dad know about it, and told him the round was on his reloading bench(why waste it??). I got called in to the principal's office a few days later saying I was suspended for having a weapon at school and that I would need to complete a gun safety packet.

I told him "No" and to call me father if he had a problem. I did exactly what my father wanted me to do if a scenario like this happened and that I was not in the wrong. After a brief conversation with my Dad, a brow beaten principal sent me back to class and I never had an issue again.

So, as I said, I'm very glad to hear that you can teach these concepts and not be chastised for bringing firearms into the mix. Good Job.

[Fishman]

There is hope. Good work.

[RED333]

Good on you Jevyod and there goes the lead supply.

[kfarm]

My wife taught 38 years in public schools and was getting fed up with the PC. Spent the last 2 years teaching in our church school, physical and mental health both improved and she actually was able to teach kids that wanted to learn.

[MaryB]

Local school is a charter school. They are not afraid of guns and the school trap team stores their shotguns in the principals office if they have practice after school!

[retread]

Your story made me smile. When I was in the six grade (1957) I brought a Pennsylvania Long Rifle to school for show and tell. It was a hit with the teachers and students. Today I would be thrown in jail!

[Wolfer]

In high school we built muzzle loading rifles and pistols in shop class. The kits were purchased through the school. You didn't have to buy them from the school but they were cheaper that way since they bought in bulk.

Since I already had a 22 rifle and pistol, a single barrel shotgun and a marlin 30-30 I built a crossbow instead.

The school still shuts down for the entire deer season.