Oops - show and tell gone a little overboard...
From the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette come this story of a fifth-grade show and tell by Dr. Michael Horowitz on the human body.
What Dr. Horowitz brought in was a cadaver arm which he opened up to show nerves and other parts. I would have thought this was very cool when I was in fifth grade but some of the students there didn't. Couple of throw-ups, one fainting and some leaving the room.
bq. Horowitz appeared surprised by the complaints yesterday and said that he has visited the school in previous years bearing cadaver eyes, ears and a brain. The body parts are donated to the University of Pittsburgh medical school for research purposes, he said.
bq. Berzonski said the fifth-graders recently finished a study of how body systems interrelate -- nerves, bones, skin and other organs. She also said that when Horowitz lifted the skin on the cadaver arm to show the children what lay underneath, "there was no blood."
bq.
"My son left the room; he was quite traumatized," said one father, who didn't want his name used fearing "reprisal." The boy's mother was at the school to help with the Dr. Seuss program, he said. "She said he was as white as a ghost."
bq. Berzonski said the
children were told on Monday and again on Tuesday that the class would feature a cadaver arm, and that they could leave the classroom at any time if they wished. However, no notes were sent home to parents before the event, Berzonski acknowledged.
Quite traumatized indeed - bunch 'o wusses... (the parents I mean)
Posted by DaveH at January 9, 2004 12:48 PM