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Blood drawing project leads to teacher suspension

SALINA, Kansas (AP) -- A high school science teacher was suspended for allowing students to use the same instrument to draw blood from their fingers as part of a class project, district officials said Tuesday.

About 50 juniors and seniors in two science classes at Salina High School South used the same lancet, or small pin, to prick their fingers on Monday, said Carol Pitts, spokeswoman for the Salina school district.

The science teacher, who was not identified, was suspended with pay during an investigation, Pitts said.

Pitts said there was additional concern that some of the students may have come in contact with blood when they washed the science experiment slides. She said it was unclear what experiment the classes were doing, but they may have been checking blood glucose levels.

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He let 50 kids prick themselves with the same needle!?

What if AIDS is merely a curse from God for non-creative fornication?

I was going to make a sarcastic comment in hickese about how this whole "germ" and "virus" and "transmitted through blood" thing is just a distraction, and everyone knows you get AIDS directly from God when you commit sexual sin. But then I thought, nah, too easy.

I just read "What's the Matter with Kansas" by Thomas Frank which describes what is going on there. He points out that there is a positive feedback loop going on between what he refers to as the Backlash politics and mass media corporatization.