A Utah middle school teacher recently awarded extra credit to
students for eating grasshoppers-- as part of an essay assignment arguing that
people should eat bugs in an effort to fight climate change.
Kim Cutler, a teacher at Spring Canyon Middle School,
assigned sixth grade English students an essay titled “Why Americans
Should Be Eating Bugs?” According to the parameters of the assignment,
students were supposed to argue that people should eat bugs rather than cows as
their primary source of protein-- as cows produce methane that damages the
ozone layer. What’s more, students were not allowed to disagree with that
premise.
In
addition to the essay, students were given the opportunity to receive extra
credit by eating grasshoppers that Nebo School District bought from a
commercial website.
When a student had the audacity to ask Cutler why
students could not argue against the essay’s premise, Cutler responded by
saying, “Because we don’t have any evidence for it.”
Cutler allowed that “We don’t want to eat bugs and
it’s gross,” adding, “But should we be eating bugs? Yeah, because we’re killing
the world by raising cows and animals. So we need to, not get rid of cows, but
like, try to balance our diet so that not so much of our land is being used to
raise cows, cause it’s killing the Ozone layer.”
Killing the Ozone layer? Last I checked it had
healed up nicely.
When the student further pressed
Cutler, the teacher responded by saying, “There’s only one right answer to this
essay. And it’s that Americans should be eating bugs. Everyone in the world is
eating them, it’s healthy for the environment and there’s just, there’s only
one right answer.”
So much for diversity, equity
and inclusion. And prior academic concepts like open discussion and debate, the
scientific method, etc. Instead, we get “Let them eat bugs.” Or, more
accurately, “You will eat bugs!”
In this new day and age,
students may soon get extra credit for changing genders, too. Teachers will
have to decide how many points students get for, say, lopping off a penis or
breasts, taking puberty blockers and undergoing hormone treatments, or describing
for teachers (in detail) their kinkiest sexual fantasies. Oh wait, they’re already doing that.
Guess I’m behind the
times.
But back to bugs. If eating
bugs catches on quickest with affluent white liberals, as I’m confident will be
the case, will it not then be considered a symbol of white supremacy?
If so, educators would obviously
have to decry the practice.
And that would surely bug
them.
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