Take Note: Hands off; Hitting the high

Seventh graders at Jaffrey-Rindge Middle School in Jaffrey, N.H., are rallying round the frog.

School officials there recently agreed to replace hands-on frog dissection in science classes with a computer simulation after 94 of the school's 128 7th graders signed a petition opposing dissection on animal-rights grounds.

"We don't need to use real frogs; we can use plastic models or computers," said Ian Hatton, one of three 7th graders who...

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