What Lesson Was Learned?

An Idaho middle school science teacher fed a puppy to snapping turtle in front of three of his students.

Science teacher Robert Crosland, who teaches at Preston Junior High School some 300 miles east of Boise, is now under police investigation. The incident occurred 45 minutes after school was dismissed. Some local parents told the station that the puppy was deformed and going to die soon anyway, with one adding that Crosland's actions were “very much circle of life.” Crosland and the three students who were present claim the puppy was drowned just before it was fed to the turtle, and was not alive as some early accounts reported.