Thanks for yoru response Kate. I actually tried to make a petiton against dissecting on the internet but it didn't work. Maybe I'll start a new website and just get people to sign my guestbook.

This year we are supposed to dissect a rat, a pig, a mussel, some starfish thing, and a grasshopper. The rat and the pig will be the difficult ones for me. What's really stupid and that sickens me, is that I'll fail the entire thing if I'm not in the room watching my partner dissect. So, what does she want me to do; stand there crying my eyes out, being forced to watch poor little babies being ripped open and having their insides played with for nothing but -- uhhh...there is no reason to do that! The rats they will be dissecting an entire week. I'm incredibly biased because I have rats...And it makes it even worse because they are my own. I HATE school.