Kids love eating things they aren't supposed to eat. Whether it's Play-Doh, a crayon, or those gross Harry Potter jelly beans, children love to push the boundaries with the non-food objects they're willing to put into their mouths. Fortunately, kids usually grow out of this obsession by the time they reach high school. For some students, that's not the case.
If you asked me to do a word association with the word "uranium," I would probably say "bomb" or "nuclear." Uranium seems like one of those things that would kill you if it gets the chance. It seems as if some high schoolers today don't know about the dangers of Uranium, or at least two don't; a teacher anonymously posted on Reddit that a student at her school brought Uranium to his science class, and his friend ate some of it during lunch. I used to believe that children are our future, but now I'm not so sure.