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Is animal dissection in high school still necessary?
My 9th-grade daughter is about to dissect a pig in biology class.
I remember dissecting a frog in high school and learning a lot about anatomy by picking through its body. But for some reason, the idea of dissecting a pig has made me a sudden animal-rights activist.
In our computer-assisted age, it seems so antiquated to be killing animals for high-school dissection purposes. There are excellent Web sites, such as this one, that my daughter's bio class used to dissect a computerized frog.
There's probably no comparison between the real thing and the computerized version. But I say save the real animals for medical students.
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Animalearn.org is another useful website for information about humane alternatives to classroom dissection. Students in Florida public schools (grades K-12) have the right to refuse to dissect on animals (Florida statute 1003.47).
Posted by: Nick | May 6, 2009 12:03 PM