Insect Collection Cruelty

My son is a freshman in a Christian High School. This school has a long
tradition of making an insect collection a large part of the Biology
curriculum. Each student is expected to catch, kill and mount as large
a variety of insects as possible. I believe that this is wrong on many
levels. First, it teaches disrespect for life. Second, it is
ecologically irresponsible. Third, it is an ineffective and
time-consuming way to teach one of the most unimportant aspects of
biology.

Can you help me convince my son's teacher that what he is doing is
wrong? A Google search was very unfruitful, and only produced some
anti-PETA articles from FOX news. I don't get it- this approach to
biology is so wrong and outdated, why am I the only one up in arms?

Thanks.

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