Clickbait to gain a few dollars while attempting to destroy the career of an exemplary science teacher, by all accounts.
All animals die. All. Turtles eat meat.
Many people allow their emotion driven attachment to some fuzzy animals over take all logic and reason.
From the comments at the article:
“I am a current student of Mr. Crosland and own animals of my own, and while in his class have not at all felt he has overstepped his boundaries with his animal at all. Everything he shows and teaches is for his students’ benefits. He does a great job of teaching and shows how much he cares for his students. If you can’t see what he has tried to do for his students then you should do one of two things: mind your own business cause you clearly don’t know, or maybe find a day you can come sit in on one of his classes and see it for yourself. He is the best teacher I have had, and probably will ever have. He doesn’t deserve all of this harassment and knows more about the animals involved in these actions than any one of you. For those of you already judging him who don’t know him personally, you shouldn’t have a say in this at all.”
All the comments at the site, by people who actually know the man are complimentary, and saying this is being taken way out of context.
The “puppy” was not some beloved pet, but most likely a stillborn animal in a litter.
A clear case of destroy a man to get a few clicks with a sensationalist headline.
Some have reported the animal was still alive when it was fed to the turtle. The proper thing to do would have been if it were born alive and suffering to quickly break the dogs neck and if you were going to use it as food, stick it in the freezer or fridge until feeding time.
Whatever. The best the school can say is that it was “unclear” that the puppy was dead...many witnesses say that it was NOT.
Furthermore, he was apparently well-known for doing this repeatedly with live guinea pigs, etc.
What is wrong with YOU that you feel it is OK to feed a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of a bunch of children? These students are in Idaho..I’m sure they have heard/seen plenty of rabbits get caught by coyotes, eagles & other predators in the wild. This is just making a sport of it with “pets”...and at school...he is a sicko.
You make a good argument for raising the age to buy a gun to 21.
And i really do not support that.
This teacher us a Frick en idiot and anyone who would defend him is devoid if human decency. Hope when you grow up you get a job in some other country.
You have a problem. Sick mind.
What a suck-up student!
Thanks for posting this. A teacher who can help snowflakes separate emotions from reality in todays America deserves praises. We freepers mock the, “safe spaces” academia is employing in shielding students from any facet of unpleasantness in the world yet it seems we can’t handle our own squeamishness.
No reports say it was dead from what I see, and a few say it was alive, which would have involved a lot of crying and screaming. My guess is an asshole student with serial killing tendencies brought the puppy in, and he let them feed it to the turtle.
It is probably an indication of psychopathy in the teacher. Not the type that will have him killing people, but enough that he doesn’t have the boundaries most people have. I mean what teacher runs what is basically worse than a BestGore video for his students?
As a general rule, I have always found people who kept snakes and predatory reptiles have something going on psychologically. Maybe there are normals out there who do it, but from my own experience keeping an animal is a lot of work and investment. I’ve probably known seven or eight over the years, and all had some real darkness in them, though they’d protest they were normal to their deaths.
It is one thing if the animal has a personality and some form of loyalty exists, but keeping what is basically a fleshy killing robot with no personality does on its face seem strange. Expending all the effort and cost to have a smelly killing machine, when for less you could have a rabbit or even duck that would have more personality and be more amusing, and not require killing lots of animals to feed it is just strange, I don’t care what anybody says.
True, but, but when it comes to dogs, especially, there are reasons and logic behind humans' (well, most humans in Western and some other Civilizations) normal attachment to these creatures. The same, but obviously more so, when it comes to respecting other humans, at least when they are not actively out to harm us. (Even dead terrorists, I think, get a decent burial, from "decent" people, at least if there are recognizable-as-human pieces to pick up. And I rate a puppy, even dead, higher than a dead terrorist.)
The question is where to draw the line. That can be "fuzzy", or a matter of opinion, but I think one such line is "pets". Under normal circumstances, Westerners treat their pets, including those deceased, with more "consideration" than animals raised for food. For example, my family eats plenty of chicken, but if one of my daughter's pet chickens dies, we will bury it in the garden, not eat it -- assuming we do not NEED to eat it. (If we were truly poor, we would not incur the expenses of "pet" chickens in the 1st place.)
“It’s the ‘Circle of Life’”