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I completely agree. If you put in a complaint to the principal, that will be more effective in preventing a teacher from making the same mistake again. I wouldn't want to stop it from being a possibility, since it can be a wonderful learning experience for the students, but teachers need to show that it has been thought out completely in their lesson plans. The last thing we need is for students to get the idea that you can take on the responsibility of a living creature and then fail to do so properly.
I never have conducted a hatching experience in my classroom, mostly because it's not a part of my grade level's standards. However, if I were to take on such a task, I would be researching it thoroughly like I did when I adopted a puppy. If I'm not going to be able to keep the grown animal at my home or have a home set in place for the animal once the classroom experience is over, or have the proper care in place before the eggs hatched, then it's not going to happen.
I don't blame you for wanting to rant about that. It'd tick me off something fierce if someone asked me to supply the eggs and didn't put some forethought into the care of the living things that they helped bring into the world.
