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Live frog dissection5/21/2023 ![]() Why do People and Organizations Support this Bill?Ĭalifornia Assembly Member Ash Kalra along with cosponsors PETA, Social Compassion in Legislation, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine worked together to draft and propose the RAISE Act. Because of this decision and Graham’s fight, 18 states have since enacted student choice laws in public education relating to dissection. Jennifer won the suit and a year later, California amended their education code giving all California K-12 public school students the right to refrain from dissection and to be given an alternative assignment without penalty. After her grade suffered, Jennifer sued the school district, claiming that requiring students to participate in dissection violates their First Amendment right to any deeply held religious and moral beliefs. ![]() The teacher denied her request and because she did not complete the assignment, she received a lower grade in the class. Instead of simply refusing to participate in the dissection, she asked her teacher for an alternative assignment. ![]() Jennifer Graham, a 15-year-old California high school student, refused to dissect a frog in her school class because she believed it was immoral. The bill defines dissection as “the viewing of the, or act of, dismembering or otherwise destructive use of an invertebrate or vertebrate animal, as specified, in the study of biological sciences, excluding fixed histological samples of any species.” A Little Bit of History.Įver preform a dissection in science class growing up? Did you or someone in your class not want to participate? Depending on the state you were in and the teacher you had, you or your fellow students could have asked to opt out of dissection and be given an alternate assignment due to a legal fight in California from 1987. Under the proposed legislation, all California schools would replace animal dissection activities with alternative projects, or “contemporary teaching methods”. This week we are going to take a Close Look at CA AB1586, relating to animal dissection in the classroom.
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