I am thoroughly disgusted!!

[DawnCt1]

These students are high school students. Not vet or med students. The teacher is not a vet nor an anesthesiologist and there was absolutely no need for this! www.local6.com/news/448044/detail.html


The link didn't work. Just as well. It's about the disection of a live dog in a high school biology class. That is just SICK!!

 

[chadfromdallas]

The article that you are trying to view is no longer available through this Web site. The content is copyrighted by the Associated Press, which requires local6.com to delete its stories two weeks after they are originally posted.

 

[thekaren]

I saw that on the news early this morning (well, technically yesterday... I mean Friday). Disgusting...

 

[C.Ann]

These students are high school students. Not vet or med students. The teacher is not a vet nor an anesthesiologist and there was absolutely no need for this! www.local6.com/news/448044/detail.html


The link didn't work. Just as well. It's about the disection of a live dog in a high school biology class. That is just SICK!!

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A live dog? What? Where? When? Why???

That is CRAZY!!!!

 

[Planogirl]

When I was an Industrial Engineering student, I had to take a junior level biology course. A live dog was shot full of various drugs to test his reactions and it was really awful. We had to disect live frogs. I definitely don't understand the idea of disecting a live dog.

 

[Sparx]

a LIVE dog... not just a dog, a LIVE dog... ewe.

 

[disneyworld!]

they did a dog, one that was going to be put to sleep. the school notified ahead of time. They did the live dog to see how the digestive system works. and how the system functioned on the levels. being that stuff is what I am in school doing, I understand...to a point. but not high school. I feel it is to much for them.

I only did a cows eyeball and a sheeps brain. It really puts the understanding in reality! but again....not for High school!

 

[Charade]

http://www.local6.com/news/4480144/detail.html

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.

 

[chadfromdallas]

This is terrible. I am a huge animal lover and of course, against any kind of dissection in the class. I've gone through middle school, high school, and college dissecting animals and I can tell you right now: You can learn more from looking right inside the Biology/anatomy/whatever book more than you can cutting these things up. For Majors in higher level courses that are possibly going into these fields, I can understand, BUT nonmajor students, high school, or even middle school? USELESS!

 

[poohandwendy]

You know, students can see the digestive system working through video tapes. I've seen that sort of thing on the discovery channel. I do not think HS students should be part of an experiment that kills any animal. The fact that it was scheduled to die does not mean students should be the ones killing it, or witnessing it being killed. Isn't there a law that domestic animals can only be euthanized by certified doctors (or those in medical school, under the supervision of qualified individuals)? If not, there should be, IMO.

It is one thing if you are learning to be a doctor or veteranarian (or pathologist or mortician). This has no place in a high school science class, IMHO.

 

[chadfromdallas]

You know, students can see the digestive system working through video tapes.

Exactly, exactly

 

[Mandabella]

Goof grief! Live dog for high school students?!?!

In high school everything I dissected was dead and preserved. I didn't get anywhere near any live animals until my undergrad career as a biology major. And even then, it still wasn't a dog! I always made my TA do the animal sacrificing part.

 

[stemikger]

This is really disgusting.

This teacher is full of it because as other posts have said - you can watch this on a video tape - there was no need for high school students to work on a live dog.

Horrible.
I'm a big animal lover and this kills me.

 

[disneyworld!]

This is terrible. I am a huge animal lover and of course, against any kind of dissection in the class. I've gone through middle school, high school, and college dissecting animals and I can tell you right now: You can learn more from looking right inside the Biology/anatomy/whatever book more than you can cutting these things up. For Majors in higher level courses that are possibly going into these fields, I can understand, BUT nonmajor students, high school, or even middle school? USELESS!

I disagree Chad!(something new !!! I learned a heck of alot more from a dissection then the book....some of us learn from hands one!
but I do agree about high school..no need

 

[Martha7]

I wonder if Mr. Bierregaard cleared it with the ASPCA. If not, I could imagine that he'd be in big trouble. It'll be interesting to see if anything happens to him. Regardless, I hope he has something to fall back on besides teaching, since no one is going to touch this guy with a ten foot pole after this...

 

[disneyworld!]

You know, students can see the digestive system working through video tapes.

sorry, I disagree, I am doing this...it does not work for me! does not help me One bit!

 

[CheshireVal]

This is terrible. I am a huge animal lover and of course, against any kind of dissection in the class. I've gone through middle school, high school, and college dissecting animals and I can tell you right now: You can learn more from looking right inside the Biology/anatomy/whatever book more than you can cutting these things up. For Majors in higher level courses that are possibly going into these fields, I can understand, BUT nonmajor students, high school, or even middle school? USELESS!

I totally agree with this. I don't see how dissection is really necessary in school except for maybe an AP Biology class. I had to dissect a cow's eyeball in FIFTH GRADE, and various dead/preserved things in high school. I don't think I really learned any more from that than I did from the diagrams in my text book.

Plus... I'm an English teacher now. I could have gone through life never having had that dissecting experience and wouldn't have missed it at all.

Dissecting a live dog is horrible. I wouldn't have been able to stand in that classroom if I had been a student there.

 

[beattyfamily]

Disgusting and sick! If they ever pull that with my DDs they'll be hell to pay! They'd better warn us ahead of time so I can keep my DDs home. I will tell my DDs they do not have to disect a cat or dog. No way.

There's absolutely no need for that in High School.

 

[gottaluvPluto]

This is horrible!!! I can't belive they did this..... I guess the next step is to take people on death row and do this to them. You could really learn a lot from that.

 

[dcentity2000]

This is terrible. I am a huge animal lover and of course, against any kind of dissection in the class. I've gone through middle school, high school, and college dissecting animals and I can tell you right now: You can learn more from looking right inside the Biology/anatomy/whatever book more than you can cutting these things up. For Majors in higher level courses that are possibly going into these fields, I can understand, BUT nonmajor students, high school, or even middle school? USELESS!

Fully agree

Dawn, I agree with you too over the OT. Completely abhorrent.



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