The photos really drummed it into the kids, we don't feed junk food to turtles or tortoises.
The older kids the 4th-6th graders really got it, the younger kids were very sad to see deformed ones & one kid asked me not to show any more because he was going to cry.
I told him that even though they're all deformed they were all vet treated, all of them are living at the moment. He was ready to see more when I said that.
Before any classes began I wrote some things on the blackboard, one paragraph said
No cat food
No dog food
No iceberg lettuce for any reptiles period.
During the last class a mother came in to pick up her son early. She asked me about that. what? no dog food?
I dragged her to the computer & showed her the photos of the deformed box who'd been fed nothing but turtle pellets & the other who'd never eaten anything but dog food.
She said "but they like it". I said "And kids love chocolate."
That's all it took she said she'll stop with the dog food.
That does it I'm going to collect even more photos than I have now & we're going to do this every year from now on.
It really made the point better than anything else I've ever done.
Wow!
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PHRatz

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• Today is the Day - PHRatz, Wed Jun 21 08:58:00 2006
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