Kids send Marcus the lamb to slaughter

kids are idiots thats why they have parents.

And im sure they would have been told that so they could get the money they needed for the pigs. Sometimes im so disenchanted with the human race.

That's exactly how it sounded to me as well.  As though a parent or teacher was standing there saying, "If you want to have three pigs then we need to send Marcus off to the place where all lambs go..."

Of course if you word anything in the right way, people (and not just kids, but a lot of people) will be 'lead' on way or another.

It seems like the school has copped a lot of flack - which I think it great, because they should.  In one way I think its sad that the kid (may have) voted to kill Marcus because they wanted to get the piglets and now they aren't going to have them... but not sad enough to make me happy it has worked out that way!

I wonder what the other non-student council kids (who may not have had the "information" the council-kids had) feel about the fact that their lamb has been killed...

Thats horrible..
Again with the "how you word it"
Personally, I would have stopped at nothing to grab the lamb and run for it, and find him a good home somewhere. If they accuse me of stealing, then woopiedoo, it saved a life.

I don't know whats worse- taking them to the slaughterhouse or having them slaughtered over the weekend.
For years now around here, we have had some psychotic children who think it will be fun to burn down the farms at school and slaughter all the animals.
In my school 4 years ago- the bastards burnt down the farm, slaughtered the chickens and ducks and placed their heads on the gardeners shed then let our pregnant cows out into the suburb causing havoc on the main roads.
Penrith High School has gone through the same thing countless times, once again this year their animals being killed.
I truely doon't understand what children have been taught, where respect became something vague and common sense was just lost all together. I think morality needs to play a huge role in growing up again instead of television and internet. Its disgraceful.

Random but..
Thats like that ep of the simpson's. The one where bart raises a calf and it wins in the show and then it gets sent to the slaughterhouse. Lucky for that cow it was saved by bart and apu
lolol, homer went to the slaughter house instead  

That's just f**ked up... I thought schools got farm animals to learn how to look after another being? Not to see it to 6mths old and then have some lamp chops.

I went to a farming school when I was growing up. The animals were slaughtered in full view and sometimes hung up to drain. Chickens were placed in metal cones along the fence of the sport oval to drain.They were chickens students helped raised and I don't recall being told they would be slaughtered, just seeing them one day draining and flapping around in those cones.
The school made money by selling the meat.

It was considered a normal way of life.