yvez9
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Hello everyone at TFF! Haven't posted here in a while but glad to be back to some friendly posters here!
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My girlfriend just got hired as a high school teacher this year. She graduated last spring.
The school she'll be working at is holding activities during lunchtime for the students. The school offers a small budget (around 150$ for the year) and they are pretty open-minded with theese activities.
She's proposed a betta activity with students. Basically, each student would have one betta (the kids are 12-15 years old) to care for on lunchtime. This would include feeding, water changes, monitoring for health and such... Judith (my fiancée) will be supervising everything with the kids. At the end of the school year, the kids will be able to take the fish home if they buy a suitable bowl!
We'll be supplying spare bowls to the school for the year and also a 5 gallon tank we have. She'll just need to buy a few extra bowls, fish, dechlorinator and betta food. This should be accepted quite easily as a cheap activity.
Many teachers acutally find this to be a fascinating idea and many want to keep fish in their classroom now.
I'm just concerned this will get out of hand. I've seen many people eager to get fish, take care of them for a month or two then slacking off. If there are only 5 or 6 kids, it's not too bad but if teachers get involved in this, it might get out of hand now. Another teacher actually wants to bring in a 70 gallon tank for his ecology class or something like that to show animal behavior to students. That's great, but it needs dedication.
I had a teacher in my freshman high school year that kept chinchillas, bred rats, had a boa, a big nice fishtank, anoles, turtles... in his classroom. He would stay at least an hour extra everyday to care for the pets. He retired that summer and gave most of the pets away. Those who couldn't find takers died within a year...
Anyway, do you think this project would work? It is a great way to get kids interested in pets and also to give them responsibilities but on the other hand, it could easily get out of hand if people try to do too much and end up giving up after a while...
On topic now
My girlfriend just got hired as a high school teacher this year. She graduated last spring.
The school she'll be working at is holding activities during lunchtime for the students. The school offers a small budget (around 150$ for the year) and they are pretty open-minded with theese activities.
She's proposed a betta activity with students. Basically, each student would have one betta (the kids are 12-15 years old) to care for on lunchtime. This would include feeding, water changes, monitoring for health and such... Judith (my fiancée) will be supervising everything with the kids. At the end of the school year, the kids will be able to take the fish home if they buy a suitable bowl!
We'll be supplying spare bowls to the school for the year and also a 5 gallon tank we have. She'll just need to buy a few extra bowls, fish, dechlorinator and betta food. This should be accepted quite easily as a cheap activity.
Many teachers acutally find this to be a fascinating idea and many want to keep fish in their classroom now.
I'm just concerned this will get out of hand. I've seen many people eager to get fish, take care of them for a month or two then slacking off. If there are only 5 or 6 kids, it's not too bad but if teachers get involved in this, it might get out of hand now. Another teacher actually wants to bring in a 70 gallon tank for his ecology class or something like that to show animal behavior to students. That's great, but it needs dedication.
I had a teacher in my freshman high school year that kept chinchillas, bred rats, had a boa, a big nice fishtank, anoles, turtles... in his classroom. He would stay at least an hour extra everyday to care for the pets. He retired that summer and gave most of the pets away. Those who couldn't find takers died within a year...
Anyway, do you think this project would work? It is a great way to get kids interested in pets and also to give them responsibilities but on the other hand, it could easily get out of hand if people try to do too much and end up giving up after a while...
