Which did you dissect in school? We had sheep's lungs - the smell, even now 35 years later - bleugh. Highlight was the Physics teacher having to stand in as the Biology teacher was off - he had a set in front of him with a hosepipe in the trachea (I assume) and was demonstrating inflating them by blowing down the pipe. Little did he know we'd stabbed the nuts out of them with scalpels - give a bunch of 14 year olds scalpels and that's what happens. He gave up after the 4th attempt. He was a nice shade of green.
Rabbit, and I had to buy it myself and then kill it as well..... This was when I did my O-levels whilst I was living in Malta....tough bunch down south!
I’m proud to say I refused and got the majority of my class to refuse too. Pointless waste of life if you ask me.
Our school was a feeder for the region's agricultural college, so we had rural science. Essentially, it was a small holding run by us woolly backs. Used to rear chickens and rabbits to be solid on the school open day. Put it this way, they were produce, not livestock when sold.
The sheep were being given the good news anyway.....can't comment on the rat or frog other than to say how many people have ever remotely done something similar since that one instance? I mean - I've never been invited to an autopsy since.
A frog, and a Bulls eye, at school. Gutted a few pigs at home and learned how to butcher them on the kitchen table at home. ( The frog at school came in really handy for that).
Same here! Grade 1 O-Level Most enjoyable subject at school. I still have a hankering to draw things in 3rd-angle projection and construct an ellipse using the trammel method. CAD? Stick it up your bum!
Nothing like drawing an ellipse using maths. Still tell young'uns that these days and they won't believe you.
Think yourself lucky The wife had to dissect a slug as part of her PHD I remember do a rat and the teacher popes the bladder by mistake god did it stink
