Dancing Frog Legs

[ysabetwordsmith]

 Apparently if you skin frog legs and then salt them, they move.  My inner 12-year-old boy approves.

Comments

Huh

[dialecticdreamer]

I am actually /less/ disturbed than I expected; I think it's because I'm working on the presumption that the frog legs were in the process of being prepped for eating, rather than the preserved specimens I had to deal with in science class for dissection.

I had graduated high school before there was much fuss about dissection in schools, and I think it's fascinating how the lines blurred and changed, from "no live specimens" to "group working on each specimen" to "opt-out long-blipping written report instead", et cetera.

Re: Huh

[ysabetwordsmith]

I think students in science should have options, and a written report is a good substitution. Most students aren't going to become scientists or anything else where dissection is really relevant to their job. It's fine for them to skip it and do something else. Students who are more serious about biology do need to work with animal parts, and need to do that individually not just looking over somebody's shoulder. Anyone not comfortable with that should look into a job that does not involve biology.

Re: Huh

[dialecticdreamer]

Our school districts haven't /touched/ dissection in any classes, even honors/AP science classes in high school, for ten years or so.

It's largely the /exception/ now.

Re: Huh

[ysabetwordsmith]

I suspect that's less about morality and more about money or anti-science dogma.

Re: Huh

[dialecticdreamer]

Anti-science, maybe.