Students get taste for solving crimes

The Advertiser: Students get taste for solving crimes :

"Students use chromatography - separating and analysing chemical mixtures - and anthropometry - measuring body parts to determine height, age and race - to solve crimes. Staff members have been suspects and victims in crimes including forgery, theft and the 'Bempton murder' - solved by analysing mud found on boots."

Kids have always liked a good mystery and a well told tale. Star Wars and Harry Potter successes attest to that as well as the huge commitment to reading The Lord Of the Rings as the films were coming out. To put that in a school takes the dull routine out and allows students to revel in something we have all had...curiosity. We have had a big drift away from science and maths and it's because TV and media things have been more fun. Kids want edutainment and so have left those sorts of subjects where there is a lot of learning to be done. From what I have read, they have left school too. States seem to be chasing absentee rates. We've got kids brought up on Game Boys , Play Stations and TV. They want interactive things by the response this teacher is getting to his ingenuity. Trouble with forensics is you have to have crimes...surely we don't want crimes to satisfy a thirst for forensics??? The skills are transferable and I bet this is a school where people are itching to get there in the morning! Fantastic idea.