I teach science in a government school. I teach chemistry in school. Teaching chemistry labs to secondary level students requires a lot of #vigilance on the part of the teacher and #support staff. Acid bottles (concentrated) are to be wiped off very diligently after each lab visit by students. If not done, these bottles will spoil #working table of practical platform.
Side cupboards for chemicals used by students for salt analysis are to be refilled two times in a semester. #Chemistry store where glass apparatus and other less-used chemicals are stored requires Decluttering once a semester. One has to maintain a lab book, which #chemicals are about to be over. Stored bottles whose chemicals are over are to be decluttered once a semester. Visual aid charts, pasted in the lab like a periodic table, are to be cleaned from time to time. #Capillary tubes, burettes, pipettes, petri dishes, and gas jars stored in the lab sometimes get broken; therefore, broken apparatus are to be decluttered from time to time. That requires a lot of management and #time on the part of the teacher and support staff.
Decluttering at home also requires a lot of management. My two # cupboards are filled with chemistry books, help books, and practical books. Decluttering them, I have to think twice, as I feel I might need them. Many books, I give to needy #students. Then there are books for my children: storybooks, quiz books, etc. I declutter them from time to time. My clothes, my children's clothes, which I think their life is over. I put it in a bag and give it to my house help if she needs them. Then there are so many empty clean bottles in the kitchen store, which are used for restoring other edible items. #Decluttering, newspaper, and empty containers require help from scrab gentleman.
This cycle of #cluttering science/home lab with required chemical /eatables and science/home lab apparatus and then decluttering them when their utility is over is a #cyclic process and a parallel process.
Sometimes I hear comments in day-to-day life that Science teachers/homemakers are not helping students/children to the required level. They can do a better job. I feel I wish comment makers get a chance to look at #load of school teachers and homemakers.
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