Tegwyth Alderson-Taber, Eighth-Grade, Canterbury School of Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla. 13-year-old Tegwyth is already an outspoken advocate for animals. When Tegwyth spoke out about dissection in her class, her action prompted three classmates to follow suit and led her school to order model frogs for students who object to dissection in the future.
Allison Carlos, 11th-Grade, Watertown High School, Watertown, N.Y.
Allison took it upon herself to write to her principal and her school board in order to promote nonanimal alternatives to dissection. Allison educates her peers about animal issues through the group she founded at her high school, Students Promoting Animal Welfare.
Emily Indig, Ninth-Grade, Manalapan High School, Manalapan, N.J.
In addition to writing to her school principal and district supervisors about her objection to dissection, Emily wrote an article for her middle school newspaper entitled “Dissection: Cut it Out,” in which she wrote, “Every year millions of animals—including frogs, cats, dogs, pigs, rats, worms, birds, fish, cows, sheep, and mice—are pointlessly dissected in grade schools, colleges, and universities. These animals were not born to be dissected.”
EDUCATORS
Rich Taedter, Principal/Teacher, Cooperative High School, Rawlins, Wyo.
As a high school teacher, Mr. Taedter knows how important it is for teachers to teach respect for everyone, including animals. Mr. Taedter's decision to end all animal use in his school was motivated by his interest in teaching respect for all and by the fact that cruelty to animals often leads to cruelty to humans.
Emily Adams, Science Department Chair/Teacher, The Walker School, Marietta, Ga.
When Ms. Adams began using computer-based dissection simulators in place of animal dissection, she saw the educational benefits of turning away from frogs and formaldehyde, saying that, “My students are able to ‘dissect’ a wide variety of animals during my evolution unit. Students can clearly see the evolution of various structures and homology between animal classes without having to resort to animal cruelty.” Ms. Adams is working to replace all dissection in her school by next year with humane, nonanimal alternatives.
Sharon Newman Ehrlich, Teacher, Edison Fareira High School, Philadelphia, Pa.
When she started her career as a high school teacher, Ms. Ehrlich
invited a local animal welfare group to speak to her class about dissection, which prompted many of her students to voice their opposition. Ms. Ehrlich
never conducts dissection in her classroom, saying, “When the students leave my classroom, they may remember something that I taught them, and I hope it is not only science, but how to be a good human being.”
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