The Cult of Death, Continued
One more "victory" for liberal education:
What is it with the Dutch and euthanasia?
This wasn't an experiment, by any definition. There was no hypothesis being tested, aside from the hypothesis that the sicko teacher could get away with an act of animal cruelty perpetrated publicly, which he apparently has done.
Wonder where the PETA crowd is on this one, or were they too busy protesting McDonald's to take notice?
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.
What is it with the Dutch and euthanasia?
This wasn't an experiment, by any definition. There was no hypothesis being tested, aside from the hypothesis that the sicko teacher could get away with an act of animal cruelty perpetrated publicly, which he apparently has done.
Wonder where the PETA crowd is on this one, or were they too busy protesting McDonald's to take notice?
1 Comments:
Once, in college, we dissected a hen that was going to be "destroyed"; she was molting. The vet "put her down" by slamming her head on the edge of his desk. He told us beforehand how he would kill her, and being a farmgirl, I figured... dead is dead. No matter how you do it. She was dead(or, so he said) but, no one prepared me for her continued nervous system's reaction to having her skull crushed. One guy did leave, moreso for the blood, but her seeming awareness to her being plucked in preparation for dissection really got to me. If this was drastic for a college-age student having firsthand knowledge in dealing with sickness and death of animals... I wouldn't care to imagine the damage resulting to the young psyche of a pre-adult. Revolting!!
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