Posted on 05/12/2005 8:50:21 PM PDT by beaversmom
A biology class lesson in Gunnison, Utah involving the dissection of a live dog has outraged some parents and students, according to a report.
"I thought that it would be just really a good experience if they could see the digestive system in the living animal," Biology teacher Doug Bierregaard said.
Biology teacher Doug Bjerregaard, who is a substitute teacher at Gunnison Valley High School, wanted his students to see how the digestive system of a dog worked.
Bjerregaard made arrangements for his students to be a part of a dissection of a dog that was still alive.
The dog was still alive, but the teacher said it was sedated before the dissection began.
With the students watching, the sedated dog's digestive system was removed.
"It just makes me sick and I don't think this should go on anywhere and nobody's learning from it," student Sierra Sears said.
The teacher said the lesson would allow students to see the organs actually working.
"I thought that it would be just really a good experience if they could see the digestive system in the living animal," Bierregaard said.
The school's principal, Kirk Anderson, said notifications went to parents explaining the dog was going to be euthanized and that the experiment would be done with the dog's organs still functioning.
The teacher is standing by his decision and calls it the ultimate educational experience.
Principal Anderson said he supports the lesson and it will be allowed to continue because the students are learning.
The dog used in the experiment was going to be euthanized despite the class project.
Vivisection is not cool.
Perhaps he could have substituted an NEA official? /kidding
Vivisection not illegal in this state or something. Wow. Unfathomable.
Unless these kids were on the veterinarian track, this was massive overkill. Just horrid.
This has GOT to be a stupid joke.
Just wait until the in class abortion procedure or watching a person starve to death.
Don't know what to say except I'm glad I wasn't there.
I was pretty much going to say the exact same thing.
There's NO reason that I can think of for secondary education students to be involved with vivisection! NONE!
The teacher needs to be sanctioned!
Mark
No. No....Hell, no.
This is wrong, this is very very wrong.
He also needs about 4 years in jail
There's NO reason that I can think of for secondary education students to be involved with vivisection! NONE! The teacher needs to be sanctioned!
Outrageous. I suggest that they try this on the teacher andthe principal next time. /s
Nothing like a school principle backing up a substitute teacher for cutting up a dog. What ever happened to cutting up frogs? PETA aint going to like this. Maybe when they are done with the dog they can take it over to the Home Ec class for the cooking class.
This guy's just a substitute teacher!
I have a feeling he's going to be hearing from them, besides a large number of other people.
Insane. The school principal should go, too, for permitting this to happen.
The students were warned ahead of time of what would occur.
I remember doing live dissection of a frog in school. One does learn from it. One learns it is not all neat and tidy when you cut into a live animal. One develops an appreciation for what surgeons face every day. I myself learned then and there I did not want to pursue a medical degree and went into computer science. Much less messy!
On the first sunny day next week they get to incinerate ants with a magnifying glass....
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