Student Suggestion: Chicken.
Other Student's Response: You can't grow chicken!
Teacher: Okay, where does chicken come from? (Trying hard not to look straight at the chicken egg incubator sitting next to the student)
Sixth grade student (with complete confidence): From cows.
Part Two
Lesson - English Muffin/Egg sandwiches
Student approaches me in the middle of the cooking lab. Puts down her plastic cafeteria tray in front of me, and demands to know - is this a "frying pan"?
Looking with disbelief at one of my brightest students, I have to ask - what makes you think that putting that plastic tray on the stove and cooking on it would be a good idea?
We regard each other. Me, still stunned at the unexpected question. Her, a little annoyed that this is not a frying pan. I look meaningfully at the closest group, wrestling with their frying pan. She follows my glance, exclaims, and hurries back to her group to find something that can withstand a hot burner better than a plastic tray.
More about chickens:
From the grade 8s:
Is there a such thing as chicken-milk? (Answered with a review of animal classification and the characteristics of mammals vs. birds)
Why don't you feed chicken to the chickens? (Answered with a scary summary of mad-cow disease and other cannibalism stories)
In general:
I have been asked at least 1000 times (no fooling!) one of these three variants on the same question: are we going to kill them/cook them/eat them? Are you going to kill them/cook them/eat them? Is someone going to kill them/cook them/eat them? NO, NO and NO!
They are PETS. We don't eat PETS. I hope your cat is giving you the stink-eye right now, and plotting a strategic location for that next hairball.
C'mon people... you really think I'm going to hand a fuzzy little bundle of fluff over to a bunch of children and say - now kill it???
WTF, people, WTF.
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| Really, you hold this in your hand and all you can think of is blood-shed? |
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