It is important that students have the ability to participate meaningfully in their educational program. The Ministry of Education Science curriculum outlines a number of learning standards requiring students to learn about animal systems. These learning standards are present in elementary and secondary science courses. In particular, courses that have a strong animal systems component may use dissection as an instructional strategy. In some cases, students may wish to engage in an alternate activity other than the dissection of animals.

 

Policy 214: Student Choice – Animal Dissection in the Classroom Administrative Procedures recognize that the Science curriculum addresses topics in which dissection may be used as a teaching tool and provides guidance to alternate approaches to dissection that continue to meet the learning standards.

  
Policy 214: Student Choice - Animal Dissection in the Classroom - Administrative Procedures