Is it just me or were a lot of people upset by the frog scene in this movie? Since when do students disect living animals. they had these frogs pinned to the tabels and were about to cut them up, that isn't normal. Most of the time annimals are already dead before they arrive at a school, and in other instances they are humainely killed before disection. That scene was cruel and disturbing.
Yeah it was............but maybe someone like the director was really against desecting liveing cretures for school and chose to make it cruel and disturbing on purpose............
sharekids used to have to do dissections like that, I'm not sure when that stopped though...it was at least in the late 70's or after.
shareAbsolutly I know
sharei think they used to use live frogs in the 60's some colleges still do probaly
shareI was class of '77, and we had to do it in high school.
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I know in Peru they still do.
I was in the pet store the other day and two girls trying to find a lizard for class. When I asked them why, they said they had to dissect a still living lizard for biology class (and buy it themselves, because Peruvian public schools suck like that).
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I felt that way too, but I was kind of wondering if (a) it's because the book took place in the 50s and that's how they did it then, and (b) they were studying the circulatory system, so the teacher wanted them to see it in action, hence cutting open a live frog. Granted, they'd probably only get to see it for a really short time.
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I have to admit, I too would've refused to cut open a live frog. Poor thing was squirming to get off from under the pins.
I guess I'll cut my losses, and turn my tricks at the magic show..
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Good to know that is not a common practice. Because of films, I thought you guys on USA where used to perform vivisections on biology class during high school... I always wondered how no one objects?
I'm from Chile, Southamerica, southern than Peru, and as far as I remember, here we have never performerd vivisections on biology high school's classes. At least not public schools. I can speak from the 80's and forward. I would started a revolution if a teacher tryied to forced me to open up an animal (even a dead one).
I ask my mother about this issue, she told me that on early 60's, when she was on 7th grade, she had to disect a dead frog on biology. But she said the teacher prepare them all, it wasn't traumatical, and those girls who refused weren't punished as far as she remember.
Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.
It's great to hear people objecting to vivisection. I went to high school in the 80s (USA) and never had to do live cutting, but there were a several times when we had to dissect dead frogs and cow eyeballs. My older brother's class participated in a live pig "heart operation" (the pig died). Now in hindsight I'm sickened that none of the kids objected (myself included). Alive or dead, the fact is that an animal was killed and its parts were sold to the school so we could meet some obligatory academic requirement. I didn't learn a thing. Kudos to anyone who makes a stand, whatever country you're in.
P.S. In case anyone is wondering, the frogs in the movie weren't actually nailed down. There's a disclaimer at the end that says no animals were harmed and all scenes were simulated.