Looks Like My Coins Will Get Cleaned

Anyways, that sounds like a pretty fun experiment. I wonder if it's going to inspire new collectors...?

I would be talking to the police, dean, or principal or someone if this happened to me. A studnet should never be asked for his property for a lesson. Banks exist and he/she can go find their own coins to use.

Shadz response seems a bit excessive....imo. Likely the teacher has no idea as to the of the cost of dateless Buffs. Sounds like a great/fun experiment....Maybe you could get the class excited about coins by asking to give a brief history of the test subject?

For someone who doesn't know a thing a bout coins, a trip to the LCS may be a little intimidating.

Friends don't let friends clean coins! ;) Seriously that is kinda messed up that he would even ask. Tell him to go buy some junk silver somewhere else.

Not sure of your school system but at one time I was a Chem teacher in a Junior college. IF I would have asked anyh student for personal property of any kind, I'm sure that would have ended my stay there. As already noted, IF this teacher has the slightest amount of brains, could simply go to any coin show, coin store, jewler, pawn shop, etc. and purchase such items. Requesting anything personal from a student is not only not to smart, but could be a problem in the future if that student's house was robbed.
Already this is a bit suspicious even knowing and pubicizing personal info about a student.

Left... good luck with the experiment. Any teacher that is willing to expand knowledge is on the right side! I hope you post results from the experiment and the reactions of your classmates to a beautiful coin.

This is my problem as well, you don't abuse the power of authority to even ask something like this for materials that may have value to your students. I remember in elementary school a teacher had a record palyer and it broke from normal use before she was going to need it for a class thing that came with a record to be played along with it. She asked anyone if they had one at home to borrow, and being the only one that did, I just said "NO. I don't have one." Even at that age I knew that trust must be earned and there was no guarantee that it would be returned after a day of exposure to that kind of jungle it would even work after.

There is 2 things a teacher on any level should do if they need materials for the course, provide them or ask EACH student to bring their own. Obviously you cant ask every student to bring in Buffs. To provide them their-self the teacher should requisition the materials in advance from the school, or go buy them their self!

There is just the respect factor in the whole thing. You are a teacher with a paying full time job, and you want to try something new and cannot provide the materials yourself or convince the school to put it in the budget?

40 nickels to a roll, that is enough for a whole class right? $2 cost of materials.

the most offensive part of this is the abuse factor by this teacher:




Hey why doesn't he just ask to borrow the class members credit cards too while he is at it! If he really needed silver coins that badly, everyone knows about ebay, so he should have been going on and bidding on some for what he could afford to do the thing with.

Teacher: Hey student I know you have some precious metal, can I borrow it form you to use chemicals on it?



How are you going to instill respect for others in the classroom if the teacher doesn't even show respect to the students.

The who line above just rubs me the wrong way.