Animal rights group PETA slams B.C. school after rabbits were killed, dissected in front of students
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Animal rights group PETA is slamming a small B.C. school after rabbits were killed and dissected in front of students as young as age nine.
Animal rights group PETA is slamming a small B.C. school after rabbits were killed and dissected in front of students as young as age nine.
Samantha Suiter, manager of science education for PETA said her organization received a complaint from “a person familiar with the situation” about a science class on Jan. 28, in which a teacher invited a guest who brought at least four rabbits with them.
“(The rabbits’) necks were snapped and the animals were dissected in full view of students in Grades 4 through 7,” Suiter said. “We were shocked like anyone else who is hearing about this story for the first time.”
Donna Rhindress, the partner of another teacher at the school, said many in the community were “really, really upset.”
“The kids interacted with the rabbits, they pet the rabbits, they interacted with them and then (the guests) broke the rabbits necks in front of the kids,” Rhindress said. “I was really upset when I heard about it.”
A few days after the lesson, the school principal sent a letter to parents apologizing for “not asking first.”
“Today, we apologize to our students, families and community for not showing proper respect,” the letter reads, adding the school was taking in the first step in following the Haida principle of Tll’yahda, making it right.
