[LadyShallott]

Ping

[billorites]

"I'm outa here!"

[alnitak]

Did someone say "baby rabbits"?

[Rebelbase]

Its absurd how life's lessons are slowly being PC'd out of existence among the younger generation.

The only other way this could have had more benefit for the kids was to have performed it as an experiment. Kill one baby rabbit quickly and let the other one starve in the presence of its mother. That would have put nature in perspective for the kids.

[microgood]

The students are running this town. There aren't any adults even in the DAs office.

[vetvetdoug]

Yea, send the rabbits home with the students and they become infected with Tularemia or some other zoonotic disease and the masses will be vilifying the teacher for bad judgement. Rabbits raised in captivity that are two weeks old or less have a miserable success rate of survival. This teacher did nature a favour. This was an agriculture teacher well aware of the law of nature and the outcome of weak young animals. She made good judgment with respect to a)her education b)experience C)logic and D)disease prevention with respect to population.

[dawn53]

IMO, the kids should have been allowed to try to hand raise the rabbits. You can buy formula and tiny bottles at any pet store for small animals.

We've taken in baby squirrels that were abandoned. It's a good "life lesson." Feedings every few hours, some live, some die, it teaches kids responsibility.

Of course, I'm coming from the angle of a dog owner whose dog was rejected by the "mommy" dog (don't think I can use the real world on FR, LOL). We bottle fed her from the time she was 2 days old.

[joesnuffy]

The reason rabbits have so many litters is that many rabbits die...they are the ulitmate prey for many species...their strength is in their numbers....

It was a hard but necessary lesson for kids to learn...but kids (thanks to Disney) tend to identify with baby critters when not raised on farms or by parents with common sense..

The teacher was giving the kids a valuable lesson...but didnt take the time to measure the potential fallout...as the kids parents have been throughly brain washed by the Disney world view as well....

Hope they keep the teach...just figure out a better way to teach the realities of animal husbandry...maybe they can take the kids trapping or varmint hunting....so they grow up able to keep the predator and varmint populations in check....someone has to...

[RunningJoke]

Children in schools are being taught that the status of man's nature is equal to nature. If these so-called elitist conservationists had to live a subsistence life at the mercy of nature their idiotic views, I think would be a tad different.

"The scientific and industrial revolution of modern times represents the next giant step in the mastery over nature; and here, too, an enormous increase in man's power over nature is followed by an apocalyptic drive to subjugate man and reduce human nature to the status of nature."

"All bodies, the firmament, the stars, the earth are not equal in value to the lowest human being. From all bodies together not the slightest thought and not a single impulse of charity can be obtained." --Pascal

[DainBramage]

AAAAGGHHHH!!!!

[Tax-chick]

Nothing like that should be done in front of the kids,"

Right, the same "kids" that watch slasher films and play "Grand Theft Auto." They're so sensitive.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

Oh I can't take another heartache
Though you say your my friend, I'm at my wit's end
You say your love is bonafide, but that don't coincide
With the things that you do and when I ask you to be nice
You say

You gotta be
Cruel to be kind
In the right measure
Cruel to be kind
It's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind
Means that I love you baby
You gotta be cruel to be kind

Well I do my best to understand dear
But your still mystified
And I wanna know why
I pick myself up off the ground
To have you knock me back down
Again and again and when I ask you
To explain
You say

You gotta be
Cruel to be kind
In the right measure
Cruel to be kind
It's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind
Means that I love you baby
You gotta be cruel to be kind

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Years ago a vet injected and killed an injured horse in front of our agricultural class. When asked why he didn't shoot it, he said...

"An injection looks nicer."

[gd124]

I don't believe all the people here taking the teachers side. She is obviously a sadistic bitch.

A) She ordered the students to bury the rabbits alive
B) She refused the students offers to raise the rabbits
C) She then put the rabbits in a hole and chopped/buried them with a shovel

I would take her side only if no students had offered to take care of the rabbits and she had killed them humanely.