In my 8th grade science class, I was literally forced to
make the initial incision into the Sheep's eye my group had to
dissect...it was such a horrific event. I had written permission from my
parents that was supposed to have excused me from the dissection, but my
teacher thought I was just doing it to get out of the work, so he made
me do it. Needless to say, he never lived his mistake down, and I'd
venture a guess to say that the last day of school that year was the
highlight of his career.
In my Biology class last year, we were to dissect frogs.
As I had done with the Sheep's eye, I got written permission from my
folks to be excused from the lab activity. My teacher's solution...Watch
a dissection on the internet! After much searching, I found a very
Animal Rights friendly site who showed the complete process in lovely,
detailed DRAWINGS...he disapproved, saying that I would learn better if
I used an online dissection simulator...throughout my viewing of the
cartoon dissection, I tried to listen to what he was instructing the
class to do. There was only one problem...he gave the class no
instruction whatsoever! He just gave them their frog, gave them the
scalpel, and let them loose! I was horrified. But like I said, he
complained about my choice of dissection sites, saying I wouldn't learn
anything.
A few days after the dissection, we had to take a test on it.
I was the only person to receive a perfect score of 100%, everyone else
scoring in the high 70 to low 80s. However, he did admit that he felt
really stupid when he saw my test score.
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