Help! Save us from the rabbit-murderers!

[XMEN Gambit]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/30/ ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>A Plant City (Florida) High School teacher did not violate district policies or procedures last month when she used a shovel to euthanize two dying baby rabbits... Bender faced possible disciplinary action for dismembering the sickly newborn rabbits with a shovel in front of her students.<br>...<br>"It appears to be an issue of student perception," said Mark Hart, spokesman for the Hillsborough County school district. "One or more perceived that to be a cruel or inhumane act, but in point of fact, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>that's part of farming</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :duh --><img src=http://www.contrabandent.com/cwm/s/cont ... freakB.gif ALT=":duh"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>The "dismembering" would be beheading them, would it not? I'm not certain what the "accepted veterinary practice" would be, but that's what we'd have done in a similar situation when we were raising rabbits. Seems like the story is reported it in an unnecessarily malicious way.<br>There's a lot of death on a farm, and sometimes it's violent or gruesome but rarely malevolent or sadistic. That's part of farming, as Mr. Hart stated. <br><br> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub141.ezboard.com/bxmenclan.sho ... ambit>XMEN Gambit</A>&nbsp; <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://www.xmenclan.org/images/x.gif" BORDER=0> at: 3/30/04 2:14 pm<br></i>

[XMEN Iceman]

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[Stang]

Stuff does happen on farms but not in schools. They should not have done it in front of the students. You dont go to school to see stuff like that, yes you read about it, but you dont need to see it. They took it too far in this case.<br><br>Down the road they will wonder why a kid is killing animals around the area and the BAM they will realize where it came from. Doesnt take much for some kids to follow adults actions.<br><br>Imho <p><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.thzclan.com/bbsradio"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.thzclan.com/avatars/stangav.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.thzclan.com/cam/index.php?zo ... <!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.thzclan.com/cam/stang/thb_ccam.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

It was an agriculture (farming) class. Probably, though I'm guessing, a rural school. If you've got an animal on a farm that needs to be put down, you put it down, you don't call the vet and wait for hours while the poor thing suffers. <p></p><i></i>

[Ambush Bug]

My take: this event happened in a high school and in an actual farming/ag class. Frankly, I don't see the point of the uproar.<br><br>Stang: I'll venture to say that the students <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>did</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> need to see it, since they were taking a class about farming. Better to teach them the correct method now, I say, than have them experiment later on their own farms. <br><br>Now that I think of it, the shovel-beheading is the exact same method I used when I was a kid and had to deal with the occaisional rattlesnake or water mossacins that ventured into the gardens of my mother and grandmother. Grab a couple of sticks, scoop the little bugger up, take him to soft ground, pin him down with the stick via my foot, and use the other foot and my hands to work the shovel. Off goes the head, which I tossed into the firepit, and the body got buried under the tomatoes for extra fertilizer. <p></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

You is a braver man than me, Bug, to "scoop up" a moccasin with a couple of sticks. How long a stick are you talking about? <p></p><i></i>

[Ambush Bug]

Oh, the usual lenght was three or four feet, with a nice fork on the end. That was the important thing, the fork... I'd pin him down with that and then get to work. <p></p><i></i>

[Dark Knife]

I didn't see where the article mentioned the age of the class. If it was a younger class say 4th or under sure the teacher was wrong on an ethical standpoint but if the kids were in fifth grade or higher I would have no problem with them seeing that and learning about grisly things. <p></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

While I find your 4th/5th grade dividing line to be pretty arbitrary, the article does say "high school." <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>