Rocks Too Dangerous for Kids' Geology Lessons

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First, the wing nut educators fought to get dead frogs and mice banned from biology class. Now, they’re coming for the rocks used in geology class!

Kudos to Forbes.com’s Lenore Skenazy for spotlighting the absurdity of what has the potential to become a trend in schools when classes resume in September.

Michael Warring, president of American Educational Products in Fort Collins, Colo., had his shipment all ready: A school’s worth of small bags, each one filled with an igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock. Then the school canceled its order. Says Warring, “They apparently decided rocks could be harmful to children.”

After all, who knows exactly what is in a piece of Mother Nature? There could be a speck of lead!

The children will study a poster of rocks instead.

And so it goes in the unbrave new world, where nothing is safe enough. It’s a world brought to us by the once sane, now danger-hallucinating Consumer Product Safety Commission.