According to Westfall, the teacher at Columbia High School placed the live rabbit in a restraining device, then snapped its neck in front of the class. The rabbit was also skinned and cut up as part of the demonstration. Westfall says the educator, who has a farm and raises animals to be eaten, was initially reluctant to show the students how to prepare a rabbit for a meal. But when the students asked a second time, he relented, she said.
The killing was not mandatory viewing for the 16 biology students. "The students had asked that the teacher do this demonstration, and when the rabbit was brought in, he gave the opportunity to students to not view the demonstration," Westfall said. Some of the students who elected to stay were upset by the display, and the school got a handful of comments from parents who felt killing an animal in the classroom was ill-advised.
The teacher is now facing disciplinary action, although Westfall declined to specify whether he had been suspended from teaching. The district is also not releasing the educator's name. "It's not appropriate in the 10th grade class," she said."It wasn't approved by the administration, it's not part of biology [class,] so that judgment is not appropriate for that type of lesson in the classroom at 10th grade."
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3 comments:
This is absolutely ridiculous. These children were given enough time to decide whether they wanted to take part in this or not. They suggested it and continued to pester the teacher about it. I see nothing wrong with what the teacher did. Wait until they see videos on YouTube of animals being slaughtered. What petty little babies. Can't handle it, so they run to mummy and daddy. I hope the teacher doesn't lose his job.
I think it's a good lesson. Children who lived on farms and even in cities not too long ago saw animals being killed for food all the time. It's probably a good idea to be reminded how we get the meat we eat.
Barbwire: Though I agree and I think that people should have to kill their own food once or twice, just to break them of the idea that meat comes in these little plastic trays.. I'm also afraid that it won't also make some people think killing and animal was easy, maybe they'll try a human next.
When I was a nipper, my dad used to catch and release fish and one day something he caught was hurt so badly he killed it and put it back in the water, in some reeds. I asked what would happen to it and he said "err.. god will take it up to heaven" As we were done for the day and getting back into the car, apparently I ran back to the reeds to check on the fish and shouted "Dad! He's not come yet!"
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