A school district in Texas has responded to criticism after video emerged showing students using cat intestines as a skipping rope. “The teacher participated in this same lesson in her college courses at Texas A&M”.
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The footage posted to SnapChat shows several Churchill High School students playing “jump rope” with what appears to be the intestines of a dissected cat. “Allowing dissection to continue endorses callousness, disrespect, and cruelty to animals”.
One of the students, who are believed to be from a North East Independent School District high school, are shown leaping over the entrails in front of the class. But while the school is sticking by the teacher’s good intentions, PETA isn’t taking the video lightly. “Moving forward, we will need to find a more appropriate but equally effective lesson in the future”, Chancellor tells KENS 5. “The idea of the lesson was to explore the tensile strength of the organs”.
However, while PETA vilified the students and teacher who were part of the lesson, NEISD Executive Director of Communications Aubrey Chancellor came out in their defense, saying that the video was not meant to be degrading or disrespectful.
According to PetEducation.com, a cat’s small intestines are about two-and-a-half times the length of the animal, so a two-foot-long cat would have a small intestine of over 60 inches. The district has yet to say if it will take PETA up on the offer.
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Chancellor says the school board has no plans to discipline either the teacher or the student as there was “no ill intent” in the lesson.
