Although PETA has provided Project Lead The Way (PLTW) with evidence that students often avoid taking science classes that require animal anatomy, the company still creates national curricula that incorporate these outdated, gruesome procedures. About 73% of Gen Z members identify themselves as animal rights activists. However, PLTW continues to push forward the autopsy that requires students to cut sheep brains and hearts, cow eyes, pig kidney, and even fetal pigs taken from the womb of their mothers in slaughterhouses…
PLTW not only discourages students from pursuing their studies in science, but also exposes them to toxic chemicals and makes them ill-prepared for college. Peer-reviewed literature confirms that students learning using modern techniques including digital dissection and realistic models such as SynFrog perform it is better on assessment tests.
Not alone The US School of Medicine uses animal anatomy as a teaching aid for students and is unnecessary in middle and high school courses.
Below are ways you can push PLTW to stay true to its name and truly pave the way for students by giving them access to superior, humane animal-free teaching methods.
Connect with PLTW on social media
Let his followers know that by forcing students to anect animals, he discourages them from enrolling in science lessons.
Share this image on your social media pages and ask your friends to join you and oppose these terrible procedures.
Use your own words or this sample text in your posts:
The Lead The Way project encourages students to carve out sheep brains and hearts, cow eyes, pig kidneys and fetal pigs from their mothers’ queens, even if better teaching methods exist. Join me and @PETA to tell the company to stop pushing the autopsy!
Call PLTW Offices
Call the company at 1-877-335-7589 (select option 3) and tell the representative that you want PLTW to move exclusively to modern, animal-free training programs. Politely ask them to relay the message to management.
Try the following conversation topics:
- As a student / former student / parent, I am concerned about the cruelty associated with animal autopsies. Countless PETA investigations have uncovered widespread abuse in slaughterhouses from where Project Lead The Way obtains the animals it uses.
- Forcing students to dissect exposes them to hazardous chemicals and makes many feel that they cannot pursue scientific careers if they do not want to slaughter animals. When will Project Lead The Way replace obsolete animal dissection with modern science?
Call 1-877-335-7589 (choose option 3)
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Contact your school
Does your alma mater use a PLTW curriculum (specifically the Gateway program or biomedical science) that includes animal dissection? Find out here, and if so, send a letter to school officials asking them to replace autopsy with modern teaching methods such as digital autopsy. Feel free to use our sample text below, but using your own words may make more sense. If you receive a response from your school and would like to share your response with us, please email us. [email protected]…
Sample letter
Thing:
Former Student Pet Autopsy Request
Body:
Dear Director / Superintendent [Last Name]:
I [graduate, former student, etc.] of [School]… Although several years have passed since I walked the corridors, I still have many fond memories of [elementary, middle, or high] school and teachers who entertained learning. [Add an anecdote about your favorite teacher if you’d like.]
I wish I could say that my whole experience was positive, but I remember that classmates dissected animals, cutting them as if they were objects, and this bothered me when I was a student. I would like to share with you some important information so that our school can move forward in humane scientific practices and leave animal anatomy behind.
US medical schools do not use animals to train future doctors, and incoming medical students are not required to have experience in animal anatomy. There are many journal articles detailing overwhelming evidence for the superiority of humane techniques such as digital autopsy, clay modeling, and SynFrog. What’s more, Gen Z is overly aware of social justice issues, including animal rights, and demanding or even exposing students to animal anatomy can discourage them from pursuing scientific careers. This white paper has all the links and helped me understand that dissecting animals is not the best way to learn. I hope you find it just as valuable.
As a student, I knew that it was wrong to dissect living things – and I thought, “What if this was done outside the classroom?” People would be horrified if they saw how young people cut the bodies of animals. There is an epidemic of animal cruelty among young people, and we certainly don’t want to encourage it in any way by forcing students to dissect real animals when they could use superior humane simulations instead.
Schools have readily embraced the challenge of distance learning during this pandemic, and I applaud our community for embracing the change. We have the opportunity to reflect and analyze what is useful and what needs to be improved. I want to be proud of the school that influenced my formative years, so respectfully, I want to ask about it [School] formally complete the autopsy of the animal. My friends at PETA will be happy to help facilitate the transition to modern animal-free science.
I hope to hear from you soon and you can be contacted at [e-mail]… Go, [School Mascots]!
Sincerely,
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