Sinks drain into buckets in science lab?!

Now here is a sad state of affairs. It’s not like it’s expected that every school in the state should have state-of-the-art science labs, but could some at least hook up some plumbing?

NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. — At a time when science is a growing part of Duval County student education, parents of some high school students at the beaches said their children do not have access to the proper laboratory facilities.

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According to leaders, the school is at 124 percent capacity. Space is tight, but the school is also facing a new challenge because beginning this year ninth-graders in Duval County have to take four years of science instead of three.

Also, science Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores will now count toward the school’s grade.

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A portable science lab is one of the school’s priorities because experiments in the lab cannot involve gas and the sinks there drain into buckets because they are not connected to plumbing.

“We make due by rotating teachers in and out of labs. If we had more labs and more modern up-to-date labs, it would definitely benefit our teachers and students,” Fletcher High School principal Dan Gilbert.