Why not gave trips to executions as well?

Here’s my take in reference to the recent opinion about the cow and its disembowelment, for what it’s worth.

Back in my day, our field trips were to places like museums and botanical gardens. Had my fellow classmates and I known about the importance of holding a warm, freshly-plucked cow heart in our hands, we would have requested a trip to a slaughterhouse instead.

It’s disappointing this educational event was not videotaped so that more of us could have experienced the wonder and awe on the children’s faces. Did the children pet the cow before it was shot? I’m sure the Panida would have offered multiple showings so that everyone, young and old, could benefit from this unique school field trip.

So how do we, as a community, move forward and provide our children with future field trips of this quality? It’s hard to top a cow, but here’s an idea that would satiate our children’s educational thirst and also help curb prison costs. Have the school contact prisons and offer death row inmates a last chance to soothe their conscience through child education. Ms. B’s sixth-grade class, accompanied by police and a doctor, can take an inmate out in a field and shoot it in the head. Then children can peruse the inner workings  and learn a lot about their own bodies. Same thing as the cow, just a different animal.

Shame on us for teaching our children that it’s OK, under the guise of a field trip, to kill animals. Calvin, we already know where meat comes from. (Daily Bee, Nov. 11) Regarding career choices, the latter field trip educates future doctors and nurses.

LAURIE WADKINS

Priest River