Teacher resigns after lighting hand sanitizer in student’s hands ON FIRE leaving 12-year-old boy with severe burns

A TEACHER has resigned after a school science experiment sent a student to the hospital with possible third-degree burns.

The injuries came after police say a Texas middle school teacher lit a 12-year-old’s hands on fire during class.

NBCDFWA teacher at Granbury Middle School resigned this week after a science experiment in her classroom sent a 12-year-old student to the hospital[/caption]

NBCDFWPolice said hand sanitizer was put on a boy’s hands before they were lit on fire[/caption]

The incident occurred at Granbury Middle School on April 1 as part of a science experiment the teacher had conducted in several classes that day, local television station NBC 5 reported.

For the experiment, the 37-year-old woman reportedly put hand sanitizer on both of the boy’s hands and then proceeded to light them on fire. 

The aim of the experiment was apparently to show the pace at which the hand sanitizer burned off. 

“It looks like every class that day had a group of students volunteer to do it,” Granbury Police Department Lt Russell Grizzard told NBC 5.

“There was also another classroom that was doing that same thing where there was no incident.”

There were no injuries reported from the experiment in the other classes. 

In the case of the 12-year-old student, for some reason the fire did not go out as planned, Fox 4 News reported.

The police lieutenant said the child was initially taken to a hospital in Fort Worth before he was transferred to a burn center in Dallas for treatment. 

Officials at the Granbury Independent School District in Hood County, Texas, announced this week that the teacher involved in the incident resigned.

“My first thought was that it definitely sounded irresponsible,” Grizzard said. 

“But you know, again, whether it’s criminal or not is not up to us to decide.

“That’s going to be the [District Attorney’s] office that decides that.”

Law enforcement said it is investigating the incident.