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Son's school kills harmless snake with a smirk...

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johntcaldwell

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A little upset and wanting to vent.

The other day, someone noticed a diamondback water snake outside of the cafeteria at my child's school (http://www.wodenisd.org/). My son stepped in and told them it was not venomous to which an employee holding a shovel looked at him and asked,"So it isn't poisonous?" My son answered it wasn't and then they smirked and cut its head off anyway.

I hate hicks.
 
That's aweful to do that in front of children! I would certainly complain. While I don't like it or agree, I get it that some people think all snakes should be killed, but no reason to do it in front of the children.
My son found a couple black racers at his school this year. They always assured him that they were just going to relocate the snakes. Who knows what actually happened, but I at least appreciated them respecting his feelings and telling him that....and hopefully that's whhat happened!
 
When I taught in a local school,I was the snake wrangler-I was the only one who was willing to relocate the little garter snakes that came in from the nearby field occasionally. You would have thought those cute little guys were great big diamondback rattlesnakes or spitting cobras given the reaction!
 
Too bad he didn't point the shovel at the snake like it was a rifle. He would have gotten fired THEN. :rolleyes:
 
gsdbecca said:
That's aweful to do that in front of children! I would certainly complain. While I don't like it or agree, I get it that some people think all snakes should be killed, but no reason to do it in front of the children.
My son found a couple black racers at his school this year. They always assured him that they were just going to relocate the snakes. Who knows what actually happened, but I at least appreciated them respecting his feelings and telling him that....and hopefully that's whhat happened!
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That's a really good way to handle it. I am a teacher in a neighboring district and we have live snakes in the science rooms.
Alli_Draggy said:
When I taught in a local school,I was the snake wrangler-I was the only one who was willing to relocate the little garter snakes that came in from the nearby field occasionally. You would have thought those cute little guys were great big diamondback rattlesnakes or spitting cobras given the reaction!
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LOL. I've had ratsnakes that you would swear were rattlesnakes if you were blind.
Rich Z said:
Too bad he didn't point the shovel at the snake like it was a rifle. He would have gotten fired THEN. :rolleyes:
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LOL, so true!!!
 
Makes me sick as well. Granted I live in Central Illinois and we really only have 1 very rare poisonous snake which would be the timber rattle snake. People hear say "Oh, we have cotton mouths in our lakes." BS. We have water snakes, garter snakes, bull head, grass snakes, hog nose snakes, and probably corn/rat/ king snakes. HARMLESS. I try to educate people about the importance of snakes in the eco system. All snakes have a purpose here. If ya come across one that is poisonous, back away.
 
A long while back my brother in law told me that he had just killed a copperhead. This was out in Delaware where Connie's family is from. Now I figured he really didn't know how to identify the local snakes, so I asked him how he knew it was a copperhead.

He said, "Well, it looked just like the last one I killed." :rolleyes:
 
I said it before and I will say it again.....
I guess these snake killers just love hordes of wild rodents.
Now, personally I have nothing against rodents, wild or otherwise. They are kind of cute to me.
But without snakes to keep the rodent population in check you can have these rodents eating all the food that the other wildlife needs making survival much harder for birds and other critters. In populated areas rodents eat crops that are grown for people, and can spread many wonderful diseases including hanta virus, rocky mountain spotted fever and bubonic plague.

I guess that is what snake killers prefer but killing snakes seems a boneheaded move to me......
 
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