What a clucking tragedy. Parents and a teacher in an upscale Park Slope neighborhood shelled out more than $2,000 to cover medical bills for one of their kids’ schoolyard chickens — but it died anyway.
Five-month-old hen Waffles died from egg-laying complications after she was rushed to an Upper East Side vet from PS 107’s “homestead” with a teacher forking over $2,100 out of her own pocket to try to save their feathered friend.
“It’s been a mixed bag,” Ali Annunziato told The Post of students’ reactions to Waffles’ death Wednesday morning. “Lots of tears in the next class. No tears in the next. “Some kids were very close to Waffles because she was the easiest chicken to hold,” the teacher added. “So she spent most of her days in someone’s arms.” What a clucking tragedy.
Annunziato is now hoping to get medical insurance for the other chicks to avoid further shell shock on any bills. The kids, meanwhile, are coping with the tragedy with a planned mosaic memorial.
Wait....you mean this isn't satire?
ReplyDeleteThey passed up a great opportunity to teach a valuable financial and moral lesson. Throwing money at a problem that nature is taking care of is a bad practice. Teach the kids that money doesn't solve all problems and that learning to handle disappointment and a little low-level grief is a valuable asset. Everything dies.Everything. Chickens and other pets are a low cost introduction on how to deal with it.
ReplyDeleteShould have wrung its neck and had it for supper and saved $2100 and gained the cost of a meal.
ReplyDeleteTeacher spent their own money to try and save a critter the kids seemed to love,really don't see a problem there and would buy if I ever meet the teacher a meal and drink.
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