Do you think its wrong to dissect on cats and rats at A level and GCSE standard?

I hope you never get ill to the point you require hospital treatment. If you do, make sure you ask the doctors not to administer any medicine to you, or use any form of medical procedure on you... for ethical reasons of course.

Such a fool. Leaving a human to die is so much worse than saying that getting young students to slice up animals which maybe remind them of their beloved pets may not be a good idea.

But knowledge in this field is obtained by doing, not looking. However, you seem to have changed tack. You now seem to be more concerned about the fact that students will be psychologically damaged by dissecting a cat or rat. Which is it?

I presume you can read in which case you will see that I am not OP. Letting humans die to prove some non-existent point you may think you have about worshiping science like a religion is callous and anti-humanitarian.

In your opinion yes. And in my opinion, no. The acquisition of knowledge is fundamental to who we are both as humans and as a society. I do not go all sentimental over cute puppies and kittens. I therefore don't find it particularly abhorrent to see them dissected in the pursuit of teaching or learning. I believe I am in a majority on that one too.

My point to you, is that you are drawing a rather arbitrary line as to what is acceptable and what is not. The killing of animals for teaching in schools is clearly not acceptable to you, but killing them for medical research or food is. What is the difference? You can theoretically perform research without animals and similarly you don't need to eat animals. So what are you? Pro-use-of-animals or not?

There is no reason for it to be necessary in the A level syllabus, if it can annoy students, upset them or put them off science it should be left out.