Although Skulark s mentor teacher, Tom Seidis, is sidelined at home with an injury, she checks in at lunchtime with Stampley for a quick hello. Sense of humor Skulark s sense of humor carries her through many challenges of urban teaching. The tardy bell has rung, and I have no students. It keeps the class occupied while she checks in with recent absentees to arrange ways for them to catch up on missed assignments. During today s lesson, students dissolve a sliver of magnesium ribbon in a weak solution of hydrochloric acid.
Every student has a set of goggles, but there aren t enough gloves to go around.
Skulark alternates between warning the class of the dangers of playing with acid and persuading nervous students to handle the test tubes without gloves. Just move away from it and call me. While writing up his lab report, Quinton Covington takes time out to rate his teacher. She teach us a lot of different stuff. We do like hands-on.