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does not every school take out all the kids to see an eclipse every time?

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No! Only welders do!

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Exactly. If you are in the path of the eclipse and dont make it an event for the kids, you failed as a place of education and learning!

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Ponder the Orb and the vast information it could hold.

The info should be written inside using advanced mathematical geometry that can be used to manipulate numbers (like in string theory). It would look something like: https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-theorems.html

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I could maybe see some American schools being afraid that some dipshit looks at the sun and burns his eyes then parents sue the school

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23 points

ā€œI WILL SUE YOU!ā€

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I can remember watching a partial eclipse in the early '90s from my elementary schoolā€¦ except we were only allowed to watch it from inside of a lame cardboard shadow box of liability and fear. It was as underwhelming as it was safe.

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I donā€™t other areas did but I live in the path of totality for the eclipse that happened in April and the schools were all shut down that day. A lot of it was our of fear that people flooding into the area to watch the eclipse would overwhelm the areas infrastructure. If estimates were to be believed from all the areas in my state I heard were supposed to be getting an influx of eclipse watchers I think there was supposed to be about 14 billion people looking for hotels around me.

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Where I live, they typically only do that for the more total eclipses, like 80+% coverage. It makes sense to me that the dad might have heard about a lower coverage partial eclipse and realized he had exactly the right tool.

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10 points

Right? In most places youā€™ll likely never see another.

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3 points

not in the school i was in

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We had a partial eclipse where I live and it was a school by school basis on if they took the kids out. They gave excused absences to anybody that wanted to take their kids out of school for it. Thatā€™s what we did.

My kid played video games for 90% of the time. It was partial, so it lasted hours, and it was cloudy af, so I didnā€™t blame him.

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If I were this kidā€™s dad, I think Iā€™d prefer to leave him in class and ensure his understanding of the world literally was clarified.

Edit: lol, thought my comment would be seen as obvious tongue in cheek. Sorry to all those who took it to heart.

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Missing a few minutes of class isnā€™t gonna make a differenc

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14 points

Lol what?

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Vast amounts of energy can escape from certain physical types of orbs due to their internal properties.

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Out of class for 10 minutes but now has a memory that he cherishes for a lifetime

Idk sounds like a good deal to me

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My dad taught welding and machining. He gave me a bunch of glass for welding helmets, so I could bring them to school and see the eclipse with my classmates.

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At my business for the eclipse a few months ago I bought a bunch of catered barbecue and set up a tent and chairs and gave the employees a couple of hours to watch it.

We had a bunch of the cheap glasses but the experience was far better looking though welding glass weā€™d taken out of the helmets.

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25 points

They didnā€™t have everyone go look with a pinhole shoebox thing at anonā€™s school? Weird. I remember doing it.

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Most wholesome greentext Iā€™ve ever read

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