Fetal pig for my freshman.

Mine did a frog in Biology HN 2 years ago at South Lakes. They were already dead.

freshman honors bio dissected a rat last year at Oakton. she says some other classes did pigs. also says honors and non honors both did it.

My FCPS kids all had dissections in their Biology classes. Fetal pigs and frogs.

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Anonymous wrote:A very minor reason I'm glad we are leaving FCPS is the lack of hands-on science labs. How do you get kids fascinated by the world if you don't engage all their senses with it?

My MS has hand on labs and experiments. Please stop making crap up to dis FCPS. There are plenty of reasons to not like FCPS without having people pull stuff out of their butts.

NP. Our MS hasn't had hands-on labs, only virtual. Really hoping HS will be better. Can't be worse.

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Anonymous wrote:There are often afterschool dissection clubs for those who are interested, but the safety issues around the chemicals have made it more complex to have full required dissections within all the science classes like in previous generations.

Where would this be? Not believing that there are afterschool dissection clubs readily available.

There's one at my kid's school (Robinson).

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Anonymous wrote:Those who do dissections should be ashamed of themselves.

No. Learning about other creatures is a part of being educated.

It’s unnecessary in a HS setting (NP). Agreed it should not be allowed.

It isn’t, as you can see by many of the posts here. Dissections aren’t happening.

But I can tell you they are the only thing I actually remember from my HS bio class.

I remember it too and wish I had asked my parents to opt me out. I knew I had no plans to pursue medicine so watching my teacher pith a frog to kill it scarred me forever.

Not to mention all the people who disliked science just because the whole science hallway always smelled like formaldehyde. There are plenty of great hands on labs--including ones my kid has done like build and document a mini-ecosystem--that don't involve killing animals and exposure to toxic chemicals.

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Anonymous wrote:Those who do dissections should be ashamed of themselves.

No. Learning about other creatures is a part of being educated.

It’s unnecessary in a HS setting (NP). Agreed it should not be allowed.

It isn’t, as you can see by many of the posts here. Dissections aren’t happening.

But I can tell you they are the only thing I actually remember from my HS bio class.

I remember it too and wish I had asked my parents to opt me out. I knew I had no plans to pursue medicine so watching my teacher pith a frog to kill it scarred me forever.

Anonymous wrote:A very minor reason I'm glad we are leaving FCPS is the lack of hands-on science labs. How do you get kids fascinated by the world if you don't engage all their senses with it?

My MS has hand on labs and experiments. Please stop making crap up to dis FCPS. There are plenty of reasons to not like FCPS without having people pull stuff out of their butts.

Anonymous wrote:A very minor reason I'm glad we are leaving FCPS is the lack of hands-on science labs. How do you get kids fascinated by the world if you don't engage all their senses with it?

Our FCPS MS/HS has a lot of labs (just not dissection in bio--though it has an afterschool dissection club).

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Anonymous wrote:A very minor reason I'm glad we are leaving FCPS is the lack of hands-on science labs. How do you get kids fascinated by the world if you don't engage all their senses with it?

With screens of course.

Eyes != all five senses.

Anonymous wrote:A very minor reason I'm glad we are leaving FCPS is the lack of hands-on science labs. How do you get kids fascinated by the world if you don't engage all their senses with it?

With screens of course.

A very minor reason I'm glad we are leaving FCPS is the lack of hands-on science labs. How do you get kids fascinated by the world if you don't engage all their senses with it?

Anonymous wrote:There are often afterschool dissection clubs for those who are interested, but the safety issues around the chemicals have made it more complex to have full required dissections within all the science classes like in previous generations.

Where would this be? Not believing that there are afterschool dissection clubs readily available.

There are often afterschool dissection clubs for those who are interested, but the safety issues around the chemicals have made it more complex to have full required dissections within all the science classes like in previous generations.