Kyleray Katherman opposes a ban on water bottles in his school. So to support his position, he swabbed the school drinking fountains for an English project (yup, took it science, cuz it's a charter school and you can do that kind of stuff.) He also took a swab from a toilet. Then he grew cultures in petrie dishes and showed that the potty water was cleaner than the nasty, skanky, fountain water. He presented his findings in a powerpoint for his class. Somebody give that kid a scholarship, or better yet, a little venture capitalist money.
The school officials were mighty embarrassed, and ordered all the fountain faucets be removed and cleaned. They had banned the water bottles when some students were caught bringing alcohol to school in them. Also known as "trying to stop a tsunami with a washcloth." Kids are nothing if not resourceful.
I, for one, am not shocked at all. We never drank out of the drinking fountains at school; they were reserved for the foulest bodily fluids, like spit and other things I will not mention on a family blog. But I did not know you could drink out of the toilet. That information would have saved me some money on New Coke from the 7-11.
