By Logan Becker
The other day, a friend of mine came to class with thumb inside his water bottle. Though this was normal behavior from him, I still decided to ask him what had happened. He replied with a solemn, “I burnt my finger in chemistry class.” His injury is pictured below:
Now that got me thinking. I had seen some injuries like this during my freshman year, and I began to wonder what the most dangerous class at our fair high school was, and how many people were injured because of it.
I immediately ruled out the english, math, and history classes, since the only thing you can die from there is boredom. Most of the freshman classes are harmless, but biology would be a tough one to figure out. In my mind, it mostly came down to how careless you were during experiments. To find out how many idiots of that sort there actually were, I interviewed two teachers: Ms. Irwin and Mr. Jaques. Ms. Irwin had an interesting response when asked how many people have gotten injured in her class. “There has been some fainting and some bleeding”. Mr. Jaques responded by saying that many students shocked themselves with the Van de Graaf generator in physics.
I’ve heard of no injuries from “dangerous-sounding” classes like adventure education and strength training, though a lot of things could go wrong. Adventure education involves a lot of high ropes and could result in an unhappy descent off the rock climbing wall if students aren’t careful. This is probably the reason why these classes aren’t offered to Freshmen.
But the unanimous response to the question of the most dangerous class was woods, a shop class offered at our school. Staple guns, a prevalence of nails, and cutting tools require students to carefully follow the instructions of their teachers.
The takeaway from this story, if any, is don’t be reckless in shop class. Ensure that you and your classmates stay alive. Be safe, have fun, and keep this article in mind when selecting classes for next year.
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