Teenager refuses to kill her chicken for a class project

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

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How do you think your chicken meat gets on your table?..
They've gotta be killed before you eat them...

By Adults not children

 

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[redhen]

Kat's Silly Chickens :

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How do you think your chicken meat gets on your table?..
They've gotta be killed before you eat them...

By Adults not children​

OOOh i see.. okay then..

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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I have 1 major disagreement with this.
The only way this class is a bad thing is if the students and parents were not informed in writing that the students would be required to slaughter their own animal.
The teacher was very wrong expecting that of a child, children of no age should be taught to kill any living thing.
* How can we teach our children not to be killers when they are older if schools allow them to learn to kill an animal?*
When you raise a few chickens for mainly eggs the last thing you think about it killing it for it's meat.
Yes I eat chicken, but I know I couldn't kill my pet egg laying chickens for their meat.

*We need to Not teach our Children to Kill.*

Who will run the slaughter facilities when the adults die? It's not killing for sheer joy, it is slaughtering an animal for food. It's not murder, punishable by law, or all of our ancestors should have been in prison. I bet our grandparents killed chickens at that age.​

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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Who will run the slaughter facilities when the adults die? It's not killing for sheer joy, it is slaughtering an animal for food. It's not murder, punishable by law, or all of our ancestors should have been in prison. I bet our grandparents killed chickens at that age.

yes, if no one teaches the kids NOW what will happen when they ARE adults.

 

[Ferrret]

Yes they are children, but they are high school students, not a 3rd grade class. The teacher wasn't asking 8-10 year olds to kill the family pet, but 13-18 year olds to kill a meat chicken.

Learning the proper way to slaughter and clean an animal (the processing part of the class) is useful knowledge. People that kill their own food are not desensitized criminals who kill anything they want. They have respect for the animal, recognize that it feels pain and swiftly end the animals life.

The article does have a slant to it. Another (that I cannot post due to rules) did state that she paid the school for the chicken, in what I imagine to be something like a materials cost. Classes do sometimes have students pay a fee for certain things provided, such as dark room equipment in a photography class or lumber for a wood shop class.

If they did not send out a permission slip to the parents, then yes the school should be punished. I still doubt that the girl had no idea in the 5 weeks of raising the chicken that it would be destined for slaughter. She had a month to object to the project and work something out with the school.

 

[redfeather]

I agree with Ferrret on this one...

I do not think this is a terrible thing to have a class about. It's a job someone has to do, unpleasant though it may be. And as the article states, the kids were not forced to kill, they could instead handle the plucking if they chose not to help slaughter the birds.

I also do agree that the school should have had permission slips handed out to the parents... but in all honesty, this isn't that much different than dissecting frogs in school... except the chicken will be put to furthur purpose as a tasty dinner!

 

[RabbitMage]

How do you sign up for an "Animal Science and FOOD PRODUCTION" class and not expect that at some point you might actually be producing food? Maybe the school should have been clearer about that, since the article makes it sound like it should have been handled better, but this isn't some crazy unheard of thing.

We butchered, dissected, and necropsied things all the time in high school.

 

[BayouPoules]

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Yep simple as that,. being informed of what was expected means you are obligated,. not being informed means there is something wrong with the teacher/ school and she can do what she wants with her chicken.

 

[matthewschickens]

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