Melgraj2@ wrote:
PLEASE READ AND TAKE ACTION - THIS HAS TO END - NEWS STORY LINK BELOW -
THIS HAS TO STOP - A RACCOON TODAY - WHAT TOMORROW - THE STUDENTS ARE
ENCOURAGED TO DO THIS TO PREPARE THEM 'IN CASE THEY NEED TO FEND FOR
THEMSELVES IN THE WILD" ????? Class tradition? - Have you ever? This is
sickening - children being desensitized.
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Students kill, cook, eat baby raccoon in class
call, email, fax to end this class for good! Article below contact info:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] district Email http://www.columbusisd.org/ District website
(click high school for Columbus High)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Janis Pfeffer Principle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Shawn Hagels Vice principle
School phone#979-732-5746
School's fax 979-732-8862
Students kill, cook, eat baby raccoon in class
YA'LL PLEASE, LETS JAM THE PHONES AND THE FAX MACHINE AND THEIR EMAIL BOXES
AND LET THEM KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR AND MAKE SURE IT IS
NEVER DONE AGAIN. PLEASE, PLEASE CALL
PLEASE CROSSPOST
PHOTO on below website]
From: KHOU TV 11
Houston, Texas
http://www.khou.com/news/local/education/stories/khou071212_tnt_babyraccoon.d217c71.html
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Students kill, cook, eat baby raccoon in class
06:26 PM CST on
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
By Rucks Russell
11 News
A controversy is brewing at Columbus High School over the treatment of a
baby raccoon.
"They started stepping and stomping on it, joking they're tenderizing
the animal," Police Chief Danny Jackson.
"They skinned that raccoon, cooked it and ate it."
Some have described the incident, which occurred in October, as blatant
animal cruelty.
It happened during a wildlife management class in which students were
encouraged to harvest and prep wildlife to be cooked out back and
consumed.
"From what I understand, they bring the animals in dead. But these two
didn't.
They brought it in alive," Jackson said.
AP
Jackson says they then beat the animal to death in front of stunned
classmates.
According to the superintendent, it wasn't supposed to happen that
way.
He said a substitute teacher was in the class that day and simply didn't
know any better.
"And with the substitute teacher there, they in essence had permission
to process the animal there.
Regrettably that happened. It won't happen again," Superintendent Randy
Hoyer said.
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Those assurances come too late for the students who witnessed the
act. Their complaints led police and wildlife officials to
investigate.
But 11 News has learned there will be no criminal charges against the
two students involved because most of the witnesses have said the animal
died quickly.
"And so the suffering was minimal," Jackson said.
Whether it was cruel or just an unfortunate mistake depends on who you
ask.
"Basically everybody knows how to skin something, what's the difference
between a raccoon and a squirrel," student Charles Palachic said.
"It was animal cruelty," student Stephanie Zavala said.
The class is apparently part of a tradition at the school, where
students learn how to prepare food in the wild, should they ever need
to.
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