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SMITHFIELD, N.C. --
It was a science lesson for
some North Carolina high school students --if you drink too much milk, you'll throw up, because your body can't handle that much
acid. But their teacher learned a lesson, too -- he's been fired.
Jeff Ferguson taught chemistry and physics at a Smithfield high school. Some of his honors chemistry students took part in a
milk-chugging experiment designed to test the body's ability to neutralize acids.
Each student was given a gallon of milk and tried to drink it in an hour. Some students drank until they vomited -- which is the body's reaction when it can no longer handle the acids in milk.
Ferguson says he'll appeal the school board's decision.
