Wow! Here we go again!

[Russ Lawson]

ugh i know! it pisses me off soo bad...in my chem 101 class we were talking about questions that were in the SAT when we took it in HS, and she started talking about how the new popular question was the whole florida snake thing, and how snaked needed to stop being bred cause they were going to eat everything in the everglades and go up north....and i was like "excuse me mrs george, but do you OWN snakes?" and she was like "no, why?" and i was like "because if you did you would know that snakes die when its too cold outside, so if they were to go up north they would most likely die in the winter"...needless to say, she kicked me out that day for being "disrespectful" and questioning her "inteligence"

I would have gone a step further and asked if she had any remote understanding of optimal conditions for tropical species in general, and asked her what on earth would make her think they could survive in temperate environments, let alone anywhere that gets below freezing at any point in the year. Then I would have asked if she thought the same when armadillos, cattle egrets, brown anoles, and a plethora of other exotics invaded Florida decades ago. Then would have called her a hypocrite and told her to stick to chemistry and leave this subject to ecologists and herpetologists because her media-influenced opinion is worth nothing. If I'm going to be kicked out of class, I'm going to earn it.