ARKANSAS, USA–A raccoon gives up the ghost for education with a little help from a high school teacher. Jerick Hutching killed the animal with a nail gun after discovering the planned subject of a skinning demonstration was still alive. Superintendent Alvin Lievsay said a parent promised to bring in the raccoon for the exercise, but surprised the teacher Jerick Hutchinson by bringing it in a live trap.
Lievsay says Hutchinson, “used to work in a slaughter house” and just took the animal outside to the back of his truck Friday and shot it with the nail gun. Lievsay said no students witnessed the raccoon’s death.
“He used the nail gun to, as they say, to dispatch the animal,” Lievsay said. “It wasn’t like he held a nail gun against the head of a cute little animal in front of the class.”
Hutchinson used the dead raccoon to demonstrate how to skin the animal and to examine the contents of its stomach. Lievsay said only one student asked not to attend the skinning.
Lievsay said officials at Huntsville High School later talked with Hutchinson and told him not to kill animals on school grounds.
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Hi. I’ m from Huntsville High School. I just want to inform you that your story is wrong. I was attending that class at the time and watched him skin the coon. IT WAS NOT STILL ALIVE. He made sure it was dead. get your storys straight!
SiteMonitor: Hello, Arkansas. Thanks for the visit. No one is saying the animal was skinned alive. From the superintendent, “Lievsay says Hutchinson, “used to work in a slaughter house’ and just took the animal outside to the back of his truck Friday and shot it with the nail gun.”
I took Agriculture in high school: our class did taxidermy work on squirrels. The squirrels met their deaths well before class I’m glad to say. The pelts come off a lot more easily than I thought they would.
Julie’s comment begs the question ‘if Alvin Lievsay and his Huntsville School Board cronies devoted a few more moments to English, rather than the finer arts of NailGunDispatch, would she know how to spell stories?
Well, she’s probably part of the “spell check” generation… horrible spellers.