Posted on 11/15/2014 9:51:28 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
My dad told me when he was a kid they had to do that-put them in a closed jar with an ether-soaked rag-it sounds creepy.
Oh, okay-so it was part of the interview process for his weekend and summer help...
Sounds like the teacher was trying to teach...
Students had asked the teacher to show them how livestock was processed on more than one occasion. He initially declined. But then he arranged to have a rabbit brought into the class, where it was killed and butchered on Nov. 6, Westfall said.
Students who did not want to observe were allowed to opt out, Westfall said.
When I was in 8th grade biology(1960), all students had to work together dissecting a cat. It already arrived prepared, though. It even had red silicone injected into the arteries, and blue injected in the veins. We got extra credit, though, for bring in a dead mouse (our choice on method of its demise). We then learned taxidermy by stuffing it.
Yes-they were floating around in formaldehyde, which smelled bad, too...
My 12 year old has helped with all the butchering of hogs and elk and deer and lambs and chickens and turkeys and ducks and rabbits and... well, you get the idea, since he was a baby. He killed his first deer this year and gutted and skinned it himself. He knows most of the organs in most of the species as they come out.
When I was a kid I killed a deer and had it hanging skinned. The neighbor’s city grandson came running around the corner, took one look and vomited and ran back home. I prefer my son’s actions to his.
Of course this is Idaho. Most of these kids have watched their dads gut a deer.
Sodomy will soon be happening in class too, they might allow students to opt out of being sodomized but there is a lot of paperwork and a long process to opt out and they will be stigmatized for opting out.
would that be okay too?
how about inviting them to visit a slaughterhouse, outside of school hours?
we need to have some real strict rules for public employees, and they should be punished harshly for violating their limits.
Probably, but those classes are held at the local madrasah.
Good grief. The HS has a forensics class - http://nsd131hs.ss5.sharpschool.com/cms/one.aspx?objectId=4788401. Would there have been an uproar over the rabbit in that class? Highly doubtful. How many pig fetuses, cow eyes and rats have been disected in biology classes in the past 50 years? If a 16 year old doesn’t fully understand where his food comes from then something is very wrong. But then Nampa HS uses Common Core so one must NOT deviate from the dictated program.
My freshman year, age 14, I sold my 100 chickens project to my ag class for our end of the year BBQ. Yes, we butchered them and put them on the grill, yumm. The school administrators didn’t complain when they were chowing down. Not that that was any of our first kills or butchering but, geez, is it so much Common Core or lib pansies running Nampa schools?
But...
But...
But... meat comes from plastic wrapped Styrofoam trays in the cooler case, right?
/s
(civilization is doomed)
would that be okay too?
That little button in your brain that makes you post hyperbolic posts like this is probably stuck...a few gentle taps against a door jam with your forehead will probably un-stick it...
How do you know, being a Biology teacher and all, that he didn’t take that opportunity to show the students the heart, lungs, etc.? What else were the students going to do with the remaining 50 minutes of class?
If it had been done in Life Skills, or whatever they’ve PC’ed Home Ec into, it would have been worse because the rabbit hadn’t been officially stamped and certified.
Excellent response!
Government schools need to be abolished. Some teachers think they can do anything at all.
I took our 4-H club (elem and middle school) to a slaughter house and meat market to help with their meat judging teams. Our daughter decided that was the time to make balloon animals out of intestines. By the time she was 16, she’d have slept through poor Mr. Bunny’s demise or done it herself for extra points.
Are you or anyone else somehow too good to see how food is made?
There is nothing immoral about farming, hunting, or raising livestock. The people who do it are not below you, and neither is the work they do.
If you think there is a problem but continue to eat meat, you have serious issues.
Sort of like Tourette syndrome...
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