Posted on 03/04/2009 5:47:15 AM PST by Sopater
With clipboards, pencils and flag markers in hand, Julie Eathorne's students had one mission as they walked the Island Lake Park trail Wednesday: find dog poop.
For each pile of waste discovered, Emerald Heights students marked it with a metal flag and recorded where it was along the trail. When finished, the total number of piles was tallied.
With a split second-and-third grade class of 20 students — including 14 boys — it's natural to assume immature behavior would prevail when dealing with a sensitive subject like dog poop.
But Eathorne's students rose above that.
"They've handled it really well," she said. "The giggling, in fact, didn't last very long. They started looking at it scientifically right away."
The students are counting the waste as part of their regular science curriculum. They are also helping the Kitsap County Public Works Surface and Stormwater Management Program collect data on dog waste in Kitsap.
"This is an opportunity for the county to see how big of a problem this is," said Pat Kirschbaum, outreach and education coordinator for the department.
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they should bring a couple of hundred signs to Washington DC
How can they be sure they're identifying dog poop and not homeless poop?
Sweet. No sexism here.
“They handled it very well” Ewww!
As a side note, I just love to watch people pick up all natural, bio-degradable dog poo using plastic bags. Three days on a walking trail, forever in a land fill!
lol Sweet1
Just providing work for future anthropologists. It's an INVESTMENT in the future.
Hey, the kids were probably more serious than any 14 male FReepers picked randomly.
Our tax dollars at work. Student’s A+ for dealing with a stupid lesson. Teacher F for wasting our money when you should be teaching the basics.
Why is that rattlesnake on fire?
Well, he’s on fire because he went a little heavy on the Tabasco sauce on that last hamster...
Talk about a shi!t-for-brains idea. This teacher should be fired. In a perfect world, liberal indoctrination would not be part of public education.
I know, I curse the stupidity of it, but alas, where I live it’s either pick it up or get fined. I really laugh when I see the little boxes around the neighborhood housing the recycled plastic, special biodegradable baggies provided by the neighborhood...they are stored on top of a trashcan...complete with a regular trashbag. Thus again, defeating the purpose.
Is he an American Bulll Dog? He definitely looks like one.
Long ago I learned that, when one of my dogs did it in the house, the best way to get rid of the poop was to flush it down the tiolet.
And global warming will make it much worse as more people walk their dogs in the short winters.
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