NPR – Will Huntsberry
“Among the Bunsen burners and petri dishes of Rob Glotfelty’s life sciences lab sits a stack of curious packages: dead frogs, vacuum-sealed and piled five high. Once those seals are broken, these leopard frogs emit a pungent odor. And, even in death, they’re remarkably slimy. Which is why some of the seventh-graders at Baltimore’s Patterson Park Public Charter School are seriously grossed out. “I don’t want to cut open no live animal,” says student Taylor Smith, who is thoroughly hidden beneath a black smock, plastic goggles and rubber gloves. “I’m gonna throw up on it.” Taylor, like many of her classmates, doesn’t want to touch, much less splay open this formaldehyde-laced frog and pick out its dark, stringy organs.”(more)