This is a healthy discussion and I hope that the bottom line is that ACS working with others - NTSA? - develop a method to try to reduce this mayhem. Cost to the individual is not an issue.

I urge all of you with experience in science education to work to achieve this objective.

I am sure that a Task Force can be assembled under either CCS or CHAS to direct this.

Thank you all for continuing this discussion and I look forward to the progress

Nea;

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Re; My efforts in NC

I am a former high school chemistry teacher. Upon retirement, I retrained in safety and now I specialize in providing safety seminars for K-12 schools. In the summer, I have a 3 1/2 day science safety seminar that is for training chemical hygiene officers for K-12 schools.

Sunday, I was preparing my presentation for a private school very near Beacon School; I ran across a slide that had the date of the Calais Weber incident along with the formula for methanol on a white board. I talked to a news reporter from Ohio the day after the incident for about an hr. Yes, I have talked about this incident in every seminar I have given since it happened.

Today, I have reached out to the NC Dept of Instruction-Science Section, NCSTA, and other science education leaders to try to set up statewide safety sessions as a result of this reoccurring incident. This would be cost free to teachers and perhaps as many as 6 regional presentations to get more teachers to come. We will see what happens. Additionally, I will be emailing all school superintendents, every LEA contact, every attendee that I have taught in my Summer Science Safety Seminars since 2004 informing them of this latest among many methanol incidents.

Linda