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Originally Posted by foreverwar
However, you didn't adjust your comment that it was against the wishes of many of the children, even though the pupil-run school council voted 13 to 1 in favour of the action. |
I very much doubt they actually voted for the animal to be killed. I don't think children as young as seven would have understood the implications of such a choice. Fourteen children from a school of hundreds is not a very fair representation for such options. The children did not make this decision, thirteen children out of the whole school made it. The "school council" vote the way they are told to by those who really make the decisions. They are made up of the children who are the most popular and not those who will represent the needs and feelings of the student body (this is sounding very familiar). If you had a seven year old and told them that the animal they had cared for all year was about to die and made into sausages for them to eat and then asked them if it was okay for that to happen, what do you think they would say?
I'd say this woman has succeeded in turning many of these childen into vegetarians; so not a failure all round then.