frog dissection

[Anonymous]

2nd grader boy attends a program outside of school. We are emailed that kids will do frog dissection. A teacher has teaching background on this science project and he raised all these frogs for this purposes. Parents are emailed/notified ahead to be given option to opt out. He has never seen a frog, and I am not sure if this project cause trauma or a wonderful experiences. I think they have enough frogs for this 20+ kids project. He has fishing before at camp, but he never touches bait and he releases fishes back to water.

DH says he did not do frog dissection till high school. So any thoughts of opt out or not? My kid is the youngest child, 1-2 years younger than other kids. He gets into this project due to his academic giftness.

[Anonymous]

We dissected a frog in high school although DH did not. It's an interesting project and hands-on science is so much better than virtual science. It's a good opportunity for your DC (whether they are squeamish or not).

[Anonymous]

It's weird the teachers dissects frogs he raises.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's weird the teachers dissects frogs he raises.

This. My hs kids and I dissected frogs last week (homeschool) and ours were shipped to us dead, preserved and sealed in plastic. It was great. Not sure I'd do that with es age kid...maybe an owl pellet is a better specimen for younger kids?

[Anonymous]

I think this is really young to get much out of it from an anatomy standpoint, also pretty young to use a scalpel appropriately. If he's really never seen a live frog, they have skipped some important naturalist education that usually happens at this age and happens way before dissection. Shouldn't you study the live animal first??

I'd opt out and tell DS he can do it when older. And I would rethink whether this program is actually age-appropriate overall.

[Anonymous]

You know your kid best. I would let my kid decide at that age. No presure either way.

[Anonymous]

Not too surprised he raised them himself. THere's probably an Amphibian Procurement Department that requires 10 different approvals to get them supplied these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2nd grader boy attends a program outside of school. We are emailed that kids will do frog dissection. A teacher has teaching background on this science project and he raised all these frogs for this purposes. Parents are emailed/notified ahead to be given option to opt out. He has never seen a frog, and I am not sure if this project cause trauma or a wonderful experiences. I think they have enough frogs for this 20+ kids project. He has fishing before at camp, but he never touches bait and he releases fishes back to water.

DH says he did not do frog dissection till high school. So any thoughts of opt out or not? My kid is the youngest child, 1-2 years younger than other kids. He gets into this project due to his academic giftness.

By allowing the teacher to show frog dissection to children so young, you will be encouraging nothing but desensitizing the kids! Please stop this! There is nothing that kids cannot learn through animated videos about animals. There is absolutely no need to take lives of animals just because they cannot speak!!
How horrible!

[Anonymous]

He’s way too young for that, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2nd grader boy attends a program outside of school. We are emailed that kids will do frog dissection. A teacher has teaching background on this science project and he raised all these frogs for this purposes. Parents are emailed/notified ahead to be given option to opt out. He has never seen a frog, and I am not sure if this project cause trauma or a wonderful experiences. I think they have enough frogs for this 20+ kids project. He has fishing before at camp, but he never touches bait and he releases fishes back to water.

DH says he did not do frog dissection till high school. So any thoughts of opt out or not? My kid is the youngest child, 1-2 years younger than other kids. He gets into this project due to his academic giftness.

By allowing the teacher to show frog dissection to children so young, you will be encouraging nothing but desensitizing the kids! Please stop this! There is nothing that kids cannot learn through animated videos about animals. There is absolutely no need to take lives of animals just because they cannot speak!!
How horrible!

+1. I skipped dissection in school.

[Anonymous]

We did a cow’s eye in second grade and a frog in 6th. I think the second grade dissection was too young. I’d give my child 3rd grade a up the option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2nd grader boy attends a program outside of school. We are emailed that kids will do frog dissection. A teacher has teaching background on this science project and he raised all these frogs for this purposes. Parents are emailed/notified ahead to be given option to opt out. He has never seen a frog, and I am not sure if this project cause trauma or a wonderful experiences. I think they have enough frogs for this 20+ kids project. He has fishing before at camp, but he never touches bait and he releases fishes back to water.

DH says he did not do frog dissection till high school. So any thoughts of opt out or not? My kid is the youngest child, 1-2 years younger than other kids. He gets into this project due to his academic giftness.

By allowing the teacher to show frog dissection to children so young, you will be encouraging nothing but desensitizing the kids! Please stop this! There is nothing that kids cannot learn through animated videos about animals. There is absolutely no need to take lives of animals just because they cannot speak!!
How horrible!

Huh? At 7-10, a child should have had the opportunity to go fishing and catch fish and probably frogs and should help or at least watch the fish being cleaned. That's not desensitizing. It's learning.

[Anonymous]

Some educators just think everything done as young as possible is better. Think this makes them stand-out. Maybe thinks this makes them look better, more advanced than other educators. I'd probably say, no just because it ticked me off.

I guess as long as I hadn't said anything to my child yet, I'd give them a lot of time to bring up the subject and would be quick to reject the idea unless they expressed a lot of enthusiasm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2nd grader boy attends a program outside of school. We are emailed that kids will do frog dissection. A teacher has teaching background on this science project and he raised all these frogs for this purposes. Parents are emailed/notified ahead to be given option to opt out. He has never seen a frog, and I am not sure if this project cause trauma or a wonderful experiences. I think they have enough frogs for this 20+ kids project. He has fishing before at camp, but he never touches bait and he releases fishes back to water.

DH says he did not do frog dissection till high school. So any thoughts of opt out or not? My kid is the youngest child, 1-2 years younger than other kids. He gets into this project due to his academic giftness.

By allowing the teacher to show frog dissection to children so young, you will be encouraging nothing but desensitizing the kids! Please stop this! There is nothing that kids cannot learn through animated videos about animals. There is absolutely no need to take lives of animals just because they cannot speak!!
How horrible!

Huh? At 7-10, a child should have had the opportunity to go fishing and catch fish and probably frogs and should help or at least watch the fish being cleaned. That's not desensitizing. It's learning.

This is exactly why the world is a sad place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some educators just think everything done as young as possible is better. Think this makes them stand-out. Maybe thinks this makes them look better, more advanced than other educators. I'd probably say, no just because it ticked me off.

+1