GIRL MAY FACE CHARGE AFTER SOLVENT PUT IN TEACHER'S MUG.Byline: Luz Villarreal Daily News Staff Writer A 12-year-old Madison Middle School Madison Middle School can refer to:
The teacher, Douglas Brown, drank the tainted coffee, but apparently suffered no ill effects, said Principal JoAnna Kunes. ``It's a very sad incident,'' Kunes said. ``We are working with a lot of 10-, 11-, and 12-year-olds who have impulses. We understand it was a dare by another student. We are very unhappy about it and very grateful the teacher is not harmed.'' Brown, an industrial arts industrial arts n. (used with a sing. verb) A subject of study aimed at developing the manual and technical skills required to work with tools and machinery. Noun 1. and math teacher who has worked at the school for three years, told school officials he noticed a blue chemical film and residue inside his mug after he finished his coffee Dec. 20, the last day of school before Christmas break. Brown identified the chemical as methylene chloride Noun 1. methylene chloride - a nonflammable liquid used as a solvent and paint remover and refrigerant dichloromethane chloride - any compound containing a chlorine atom , which he used in a plastics course that day. Methylene chloride is used primarily to bond acrylic plastic, like Plexiglas. School officials said they contacted the Poison Control Center poison control center Toxicology A nonprofit facility, often affiliated with a university or hospital, that provides emergency toxicology assessments by telephone, and treatment recommendations, primarily to parents of children who swallowed a household product, . In an interview, Brown said he visited a doctor, but the teacher declined to comment on the health impacts from his drinking of the chemical. Kunes said Brown experienced heartburn heartburn, burning sensation beneath the breastbone, also called pyrosis. Heartburn does not indicate heart malfunction but results from nervous tension or overindulgence in food or drink. later in the day. Brown said he filed a report with Los Angeles police Jan. 12. The 12-year-old girl, who was not identified because of her age, told school officials Tuesday she poured four or five drops, maybe a teaspoon, of the chemical into Brown's coffee mug, Kunes said. She was held on suspicion of assault with a caustic chemical and later was released to her parents, according to L.A. Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. police. The school is in the process of suspending the student and the ``possibility of expulsion exists, unfortunately,'' Kunes said. The student, Kunes added, is remorseful re·morse·ful adj. Marked by or filled with remorse. re·morse  ful·ly adv. about the incident. ``The student, I believe, felt this was a dye,'' she said. ``The student knew it was a wrong thing to do but thought it did not have other chemical properties.'' |
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