High school dissection is a hotly debated science topic among high school students and teachers. Now its your turn to let us know what you think about having to dissect things like frogs, cats and other animals in the name of science.
Do you cringe when your science teacher tells you what animal you'll be dissecting this year? When the big day comes to cut apart that animal in the name of science do you suddenly come down with a fake torture them before they are killed. I'm out!
Kidz Submit by: 5kl6a
Nickname: illusen
Age: 15
I totally agree with Lil Gavilana. We are animals too, did you know that?I personally wouldn't want to be killed just for the purpose of science. The only thing I have dissected is owl pellets and I prefer it like that.
Kidz Submit by: 5kl6a
Nickname: Lexi2007
Age: 14
religions, etc., be able to do it (i.e. Jews dissecting pigs). Now, I KNOW the animals aren't always killed FOR the class, but still, it bothers some people. Including me. If the class made it very, very clear in the synopsis that there would be dissection involved AND provided it were an elective class, I would agree that it's perfectly acceptable to have everyone in the class dissect the animal. However, at schools such as mine, in which you must take biology to graduate and all the biology classes dissect something, be it a cat or a fetal pig, it just seems a bit fairer to offer an alternative, or at least to allow people who are self-advocates and REQUEST an alternative to be able to do something else.
Kidz Submit by: 5kl6a
Nickname: ChaosFortuna
Age: 16
hands on experience, and save thousands of dollars, not to mention thousands of lives. Science class shouldn't be a funeral, and a reverence for life should be more important then following the rules of a "traditional" science class.
Kidz Submit by: 5kl6a
Nickname: punkrok_fairy
Age: 14
What do you think? Should you have the option to skip dissecting an animal in science class or should everyone have to take part? Drop us a line with your thoughts.
