Why Snot is Green?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/16/science-lessons-inspiration I thought the ‘How Loud Can You Burp?’ should be ‘How loud Can You Fart?’ but I haven’t investigated the practical consequences of this change. Perhaps more importantly, I fear that science teachers would say that they would love to teach like this but the constraints of teaching to the test (either GCSE or SATS) combined with a fear of loosing control makes it impossible. I know some of you are fans of the HBO series, The Wire, did you know that series four explores the practical problem of schooling the ‘hoppers’, the street corner kids. It would seem that the centrality and difficulty of pupil engagement is common to the schooling systems of both the UK and the USA and yet in both places it is a problem that is marginalised by politicians and school managers.