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October 8th, 2003, 08:50 PM
October 17, 2003, is the second annual “Cut Class, Not Frogs” Day to bring awareness to students’ right to not dissect. Yes, it’s a few weeks away, but keep reading ’cause we need your help and want to help you plan ahead.
Speak out for the millions of animals killed for dissection each year—“Cut Class, Not Frogs” Day is best spent learning about animals in nature, not sitting in bio class with a bunch of chemical-filled corpses. Send a message to your school officials, and convince them to step out of the Dark Ages by using non-animal replacements for dissection
How? Carefully:
1. Find out if you will be required to dissect this year.
2. Write a letter to your principal and to the teacher of the class in which you will be asked to dissect. Tell them that you’ll be spending October 17 learning about frogs in nature, as part of a national movement to protest dissection. Tell them that if an alternative is offered, there won’t be a protest.
3. Tell your parents what you are doing. Don’t get in trouble for this. It is your right to have an alternative. Your parents will help you stand up for that right.
4. Tell us that you are doing this. E-mail PETA2@peta.org. We’ll send you info on all the alternatives to dissection, send you tons of lit and stickers, and even contact your local media to help you be successful with your protest.
5. Get your friends involved. There is power in numbers.
6. Be constructive with your time out of class. Go out in nature, or hand out lit about dissection in an area close to your school.
Requiring students to dissect in class is unnecessary. There are tons of alternatives to dissection that are more informative and educational—and don’t cause the death of millions of animals each year. You have the right to choose to refuse to dissect.
There are lots of other things you can do, too.
Speak out for the millions of animals killed for dissection each year—“Cut Class, Not Frogs” Day is best spent learning about animals in nature, not sitting in bio class with a bunch of chemical-filled corpses. Send a message to your school officials, and convince them to step out of the Dark Ages by using non-animal replacements for dissection
How? Carefully:
1. Find out if you will be required to dissect this year.
2. Write a letter to your principal and to the teacher of the class in which you will be asked to dissect. Tell them that you’ll be spending October 17 learning about frogs in nature, as part of a national movement to protest dissection. Tell them that if an alternative is offered, there won’t be a protest.
3. Tell your parents what you are doing. Don’t get in trouble for this. It is your right to have an alternative. Your parents will help you stand up for that right.
4. Tell us that you are doing this. E-mail PETA2@peta.org. We’ll send you info on all the alternatives to dissection, send you tons of lit and stickers, and even contact your local media to help you be successful with your protest.
5. Get your friends involved. There is power in numbers.
6. Be constructive with your time out of class. Go out in nature, or hand out lit about dissection in an area close to your school.
Requiring students to dissect in class is unnecessary. There are tons of alternatives to dissection that are more informative and educational—and don’t cause the death of millions of animals each year. You have the right to choose to refuse to dissect.
There are lots of other things you can do, too.