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this is why Long Island is falling behind...One freak doesn't want to follow the rules so the administration jumps through hoops to ban the procedure. There was a day when non conformists just accepted their F's and moved along down the highway of fail...now they are taking everyone with them. It's too late to grow a pair:
Boy, 9, gets school to ban frog dissection
Nine-year-old Gabriel Cruz dreaded his school's fourth-grade frog dissection since learning about it last year from his older brother.
He told his teacher at the private Ivy League School in Smithtown that he wouldn't participate.
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Oh, I don't know, LIC. There's nothing grade-schoolers can learn from dissecting an animal that they can't learn through a video, anyway. I never did any of that and I turned out fine. [url=http://******************]http://******************/happy-smiley-820.gif (broken link)[/url]
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That was always a High School project for us, must be a perk of a "private" education. Here there is an on-line simulation for those Consciousness Objectors. Reality is really gonna be a bite when this student enters the real world...
Oh, I don't know, LIC. There's nothing grade-schoolers can learn from dissecting an animal that they can't learn through a video, anyway. I never did any of that and I turned out fine.
When I went to school this was done in 10th grade......I took 2 yrs of a 2nd language to avoid dissecting the frog in Biology......never thought of making the whole school avoid it - actually would have been all of NYC because all high schools had the same curriculum.
But I must correct myself. I did cut open a foot-long worm in 10th grade. It reeked of formaldehyde. Which would explain a lot.
The AP class did dissect dead cats. One of the guys took a fish out of the fish tank, put it in the cat's stomach, and then called the teacher over to share his "discovery."
Sorry to hear that the school is so short sighted. Dissection is a major part of science learning and developement, while you can learn about the organs etc from a book, the physical act is part of the learning process.
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