Cat-intestine jump rope on video was part of lesson, Texas district says

[jpak]

Source: Chicago Tribune

A Texas school district says no one will face punishment after video surfaced of high school students using a cat's intestines as a jump rope during a lesson.

Officials with the North East Independent School District told KENS-TV the incident happened earlier this month during an anatomy class at Winston Churchill High School.

The district said the teacher felt the lesson was "effective" for demonstrating how long and tough intestines are.

Spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor says the lesson was not meant to be disrespectful. She says neither the students nor teacher will be punished because there is no "ill will." But she says the district will update the lesson plan.

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[Ed Suspicious]

1. .

[Iggo]

2. Did they kill a cat?

[MynameisBlarney]

4. All sorts of animals have been available for dissection

in high school classes.
It's very common in the more advanced biology classes.

We did in my high school.

[Igel]

6. Probably not.

Somebody else killed the cat.

One likely source is
https://www.flinnsci.com/biology/products/animals/preserved-specimens/vertebrates/cat/

Almost every scientific supply company serving high schools and colleges have carcasses for dissection. Best not to ask where the cats come from.


There's a trend to use farm-raised minks for dissection, and some use fetal pigs, but a lot of (embalmed) cats go under the knife in anatomy classes. Good intro to basic mammalian physiology.

[Iggo]

8. That's what I was getting at. The "no ill intent" part.

They're still disgusting pieces of shit for playing with the entrails, but whatever.

[snooper2]

17. you never juggled a frog heart in class

[Sunlei]

14. No, the 'animal dealer' killed it. Dealers get animals from some 'shelters' & sell to schools.

Here's how schools buy live or dead animals in America. Many are 'easy to handle' pets.
http://www.dyingtolearn.org/sourceDealers.html

[FighttheFuture]

20. OR if your former Senator Bill Frist (R-TN,Psychopath), you took care of it yourself!!

http://horsesass.org/sen-frist-kills-cats/

[Sunlei]

21. a "ghoul" like Wyoming State Rep. Sue Wallis (R) started a taxfree 'charity' to slaughter horses.

She was found alone, dead in a hotel room in 2014. 'Natural causes', she was in her 50s.

Sometimes 'Nature' Wins one and the Ghouls lose.

[FighttheFuture]

22. Good to hear some good news!

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. What the hell is wrong with these people? nt

[narnian60]

9. +1

[sofa king]

5. This article should be set to banjo music.

[Igel]

7. "Not intended to be disrespectful."

To whom?

The dead cat?

Heck, you see roadkill cats being "disrespected" all the time.

To students?

They're animals. They're raised, killed, skinned, embalmed and sold for this purpose. Otherwise they'd never have lived or would have been put down very soon after birth.

Can't imagine how some people manage to go by the meat aisles or counters in supermarkets without being traumatized.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. To be fair, the class was "Budding Serial Killer 101" nt.

[packman]

11. O.K. - Horror story for Wednesday

NEVER LET YOUR VET TAKE YOUR DEAD PET FOR ANY REASON - Bury your beloved in a park, backyard, wherever and have closure. The horror story - lived in Maryland and a vet there would take the dead pets and resell them to medical companies that specialized in animal bodies which were sold to schools AND to other places that used them for various things. The "ashes" from a pet cremation, which the grieving owners paid for, were nothing more than chicken ashes . The pet crematorium and he had a side-business which profited them both.

[Brickbat]

12. Before we did our first full-animal dissection in 8th grade, the teacher gave a little speech about

the importance of a sense of decorum as we went through the procedures. The point was, don't just cut up this thing just because you have a knife and I said you could. And this was for an earthworm. At the same time, I do see how there was actually a lesson behind the intestine-twirling. I'll allow it.

[libodem]

13. Cat gut

Stiches used to be a thing. Wonder if they stll are?

[Crepuscular]

15. When I played tennis in High School

my Jack Kramer Pro-staff was always strung with catgut. (I believe they actually used sheep or goat intestines to make catgut, which should make cat's breath a little easier).

Kids do stupid things all the time, this rates pretty low on the list of potential things to get outraged about.

[libodem]

16. Yep

[Xithras]

18. Yes, there is no "cat" in catgut string. It's usually sheep or cattle.

Long ago, a violin teacher explained it to me this way: Centuries ago there was a type of violin called the Kit that was popular with court musicians playing for royalty and with traveling minstrels (the kit is still around, but it's pretty uncommon nowadays). The kit was popular because it was small enough to fit in a small bag (some small enough for pockets), which meant that a musician could constantly carry the instrument and be ready to play at a moments notice.

The problem with a highly portable stringed instrument is that you tend to break a lot of strings. Cattle and sheep intestine was cheap and popular string source 500 years ago (back then, deer and other game animals were considered to produce higher quality gut strings, and were used where quality was a consideration).

The Germanic word for "good" is "gott", and English has a solid German foundation. Catgut is simply a corruption of Kit Gott, or Good Kit, a shorthand way of referring to "Good kit string". Over time it was simply shortened to kitgut, which later morphed into the modern catgut.

[Elmergantry]

19. whats the big deal

Did they try double dutch?