Human safety issues aren't rare-discuss classroom reefs, home reef-caused infections in humans. this is an untold side of home reef tanking

[brandon429]

I am a cable guy, nobody listens to me if I ask for regulations. if your internet went out they'd call me, and if your classroom reef needed a rip clean

 

[Rmckoy]

A table saw is equipment that are responsible for thousands of amputations per year. How many serious injuries are there from reef aquariums? I really have no clue, but I am guessing it is a low number. I mean, last year we sent a 7th grader to the ER for eating the insides of a sharpe, kids do the craziest things.

Kids eating a he inside of a sharpie ?
This isn’t helping you at all .
and just think … this is the generation we are coddling to become what ?
The next president of the USA ?
Or even better , engineers that create the path for the future

for those crayons or licking windows is the reason we need posts such as this .

for every idiotic sign there was someone that made it necessary !
mg guess is the kid eating the inside of a sharpie didn’t help the situation at all !

 

[MoshJosh]

I am a no gloves reefer for the most part so take my opinions with a grain of salt. . . I don't think a waiver is need for just keeping a reef tank in the classroom (assuming the teacher is responsible and is not keeping blue ringed octopus and stone fish. Also there are no students with explicit allergies or immunodeficiency). I guess if the students would be doing something incredibly hands on like fragging corals or digging through buckets of live rock, then a waiver would be good to CYA.

As long as the teacher has provided adequate education and instruction, I see a reef tank as no more dangerous than a paper cutter, stapler, tools in wood shop (we had torches in my shop class. . . not the corals), playground equipment, or the wasps nest living on the side of the school.

That said I can see the "misuse" of the reef tank in certain age groups being more likely than in others.

 

[mijan]

The real eye opener in this thread is even with our litigious society schools still have wood shop.

 

[Coach v]

Kids eating a he inside of a sharpie ?
This isn’t helping you at all .
and just think … this is the generation we are coddling to become what ?
The next president of the USA ?
Or even better , engineers that create the path for the future

for those crayons or licking windows is the reason we need posts such as this .

for every idiotic sign there was someone that made it necessary !
mg guess is the kid eating the inside of a sharpie didn’t help the situation at all !

In the kids defense, it was at lunch time!