I had a science teacher in 7th grade, I still keep in touch with, who had about 10 snakes in our classroom. She had a red ratsnake, an albino red rat, a ball python, and a number of others...id say around 5-7 total. She kept them in 10 gallon tanks around the perimeter of the classroom. They are always fed after school lets out, students werent allowed to be in the classroom for that time (unsure why to this day). She would take them out herself and if the students want to they can come up and touch it and possibly hold it after half the year went by, but she wouldnt ever make any student do this. The only two incidents I know about that were somewhat negative from this were one time when I had her class we found a red ratsnake out in the playing field and thought it was her so a few other kids and i picked it up and carried it back to her...it wasnt hers lol. but just the fact that we felt comftorable enough to do this could create some sort of threat...I think the students would need to be educated about at least all the venemous snakes of your area, along with the ones that will bite. Thankfully none of us got bit. The only other problem I know about she had was actually just this past spring, she left the room for a few minutes and one of the students dared another to put her hand in the cage with the ball python, (this is her homeroom class, not a regular science class where she would have gotten onto them about never touching them unless she was around..which she still did but not as intense) she did, and got bit. And this raised a big commotion about if she should have them or not, but she ended up keeping them. The two students both got written up on a discipline thingamabobber lol.

From the students standpoint though, I loved having them in the class with me. They were all full grown and I thought it was cool to have the snakes around...and it turned out by the end of the year none of the kids were afraid of them. I think it really helps increase reptile/snake awareness and realize they arent all slimy nasty things that are gonna kill you.

But thats my 2 cents.
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Current snakes:
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat(Lola)
1.0 Neonate Black Rat (het for Lic Stk's) (Frankie)
1.1 Texas Bairds ("Bill" and "The Bride aka Beatrix Kiddo"

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