[awhitty]

Haha, I have to assume so, but honestly I didn't spend much time in the chicken coop because I thought it smelled bad. I'm not sure where the eggs went, also. And yea, on reflection, it probably wasn't, like, above-board to have kids working with live animals in school? I remember a friend getting pecked by a chicken once. This was a pretty agg-y area in New Mexico and most everyone I grew up with had at least some animals on their land, so it wasn't unusual.

[jaggederest]

> And yea, on reflection, it probably wasn't, like, above-board to have kids working with live animals in school?

How will children learn to care for and appreciate animals if they don't interact with them? I think, rather than "not above-board", it's vital.

[rcoveson]

But what about the allergens? The risk of salmonella? Have you seen the damage an angy chicken can do with those claws? I've heard that Avian Influenza is on the rise again. Can't they just learn about chickens on their EduTablets?

...is what I imagine I'd hear at the Parent/Teacher conferences leading up to the average public school's field trip to a local farm.

[markdown]

> it probably wasn't, like, above-board to have kids working with live animals in school.

These days there are American children as young as 13 washing down slaughterhouses on school nights and sleepwalking to school. In a nation where child labor of this kind is completely legal, I think it’s fair to say that a few chickens at school is just fine.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-find-100-children-...