Stay Squirrel Flushed Down Rest room Prompts PETA Plea for Empathy Classes in Colleges

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Might 13, 2022

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Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382

Gypsum, Colo. – Following reviews {that a} group of Eagle Valley Excessive College college students flushed a reside squirrel down a rest room and posted a video of the incident to social media, TeachKind—PETA’s humane schooling division—rushed a letter in the present day to Eagle County College District Superintendent Philip Qualman asking to supply the district with a Okay–12 kindness-to-animals curriculum and “Empathy Now,” a information to stopping every kind of violence by younger folks.

Colorado legislation strongly encourages faculties to incorporate character schooling programming in an effort to “higher put together college students to grow to be optimistic contributors to society.” As TeachKind notes in its letter, the group’s curriculum and supply to host free, empathy-building digital shows would assist the district meet this suggestion.

“Drowning can be each bit as painful and terrifying for a squirrel as it will be for one more mammal, like a canine or a human,” says PETA Senior Director of Youth Packages Marta Holmberg. “Compassion and empathy may be discovered, and TeachKind is on standby to assist faculties train younger people who violence is mistaken, whether or not the sufferer is a squirrel or a scholar.”

TeachKind notes that analysis reveals that 43% of perpetrators of faculty massacres first dedicated acts of cruelty towards animals—so juvenile animal abusers doubtlessly pose a critical risk to the neighborhood at massive. The group’s different assets embrace its free highschool social justice curriculum, “Difficult Assumptions,” and its “Share the World” program package for elementary faculty college students.

TeachKind—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals should not ours to abuse in any method”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to TeachKind.org or comply with the group on Fb or Instagram.