Teacher suspended for coyote skinning

[BozoWise]

Schoolteacher suspended for skinning coyote

A Massachusetts schoolteacher has been suspended for skinning a dead coyote in front of pupils.

Miles Downing, of North Shore Technical High School, Middleton, found the dead animal on the roadside.

The carpentry teacher, who is an amateur taxidermist, threw it in the back of his pick-up and took it in to school.

Two students who touched the dead coyote are being treated for rabies as a precaution, reports the Boston Globe.

Asked why Mr Downing would show his students how to skin a carcass, school superintendent Amy O'Malley said: ''You've got me. I assume he thought it would be an educational experience for the students.''

Officials at the school did not know about the demonstration until the school nurse overheard students talking about what they had witnessed.

The nurse immediately notified the principal, who contacted the state Department of Public Health.

[Mikie]

That shows you how much some of the educated people know about wild life.I would thing it was a good idea to show a few students that has never seen it done. That is the world for you today. Hello Bozo!

[Bobcat]

......kind of like trying to teach gun safety in schools....might save some lives, but it is not PC.

Bob

[1st cav sgt ret]

I guess because he wasnt the biology teacher it wasnt PC Idonno

[Sabre2th]

Is it possible to get rabies by touching an infected animal? I would think that you would need bodily fluid transfer, such as an open wound. These people sound like a bunch of nutjobs if you ask me. The teacher didn't kill the animal, he just made use of something that was provided. My children watched and assisted me in dressing out a deer today and I belive that they learned something(after all my Daughter wants to be a Doctor, Veternarian, or Forensic Pathologist). What better way to teach a child than to show them?

[BozoWise]

Yes it is sad to me. The animals was already dead (via accident)