Students continue to amaze me every day

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and not in a good way. We are currently working on the chapter on fingerprints and fingerprint evidence in forensic science. I don't do a whole lot of lecturing in the class because 1) the students don't listen and 2) the subject in general is something I don't know much about. I use a lot of webquests, virtual labs, videos, etc. Today, though, we were starting a hands-on fingerprint lab. It wasn't anything complicated. They just had to take their fingerprints and put them on a card to analyze tomorrow. That was it. I let them play UNO or Jenga when they were finished. It was something hands-on and easy. Yeah I had a handful of students in one of my classes refuse to do it because they thought I was going to send their fingerprints to the FBI. I was like "we can set the cards on fire when you are finished with them" and they still refused. I told them I would make the lab which I was planning to make 30 points worth 100 points and they still said they would take the zero. *slams head on table* This is what I deal with every day. Yesterday a student refused to stand for the Pledge to the flag. Today they refused to do fingerprints. I wonder what my bio kids will do when they have to do DNA extraction with their own DNA. They will probably accuse me of trying to clone them.