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two years. Prior to that, I understand, a garden hose was run across the hall!) Even under the strictest direction and monitoring, lab work is indeed a chaotic situation.
Labs that can be done under these restricted conditions must also be restricted. As an example, the bumping of a table that may cause spillage must be taken into account when choosing labs. This is hardly the criterion upon which certain types of experiments should be chosen. Of course, always foremost, there is safety to be considered.
So with what does this leave us? Students leave our schools with underdeveloped lab skills. This is not from poor teaching, but from doing the best and safest teaching possible under these poor conditions.
Another shortcoming is shortage space. Should we miraculously have an unlimited budget to purchase materials, where will they be stored? Every inch of apace is now utilized to its maximum and materials that could be purchased with our budgets often are not for lack of storage space, hence building and modernizing our curriculum is again limited.
Speaking of modernizing, is the public aware that in two science rooms propane torches must be used as heat sources as gas is not available? For safety’s sake, these are used just by the teachers for demonstrations, but there again are vital lab skills that students can’t develop, due to simply not having accessible Bunsen burners. When accom
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