NAMPA, Idaho – An Idaho biology teacher faces disciplinary action after conducting a demonstration about how a rabbit is killed and prepared as a meal for a family.

The 10^th grade biology teacher who is not identified in media reports raises animals for food on his personal farm, and initially refused student requests to demonstrate how a rabbit is killed, skinned and prepared for a meal. But after repeated from students at Columbia High School, the teacher brought a live rabbit to class Nov. 6 to show students how it’s done, KTVB reports.

“The students had asked that the teacher do this demonstration, and when the rabbit was brought in, he gave the opportunity to students to not view the demonstration,” Nampa School District spokeswoman Allison Westfall told the news site.

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Sixteen students opted to stay for the demonstration, which was not part of the biology curriculum or previously approved by district administrators. The teacher put the live rabbit in a restraint, snapped its neck, then skinned and processed the animal as part of the demonstration, Westfall said.

The incident apparently upset some students who opted to stay and their parents called the school to complain. As a result, the district is taking undisclosed disciplinary action against the teacher, who school officials refuse to identify, KTVB reports.

“It’s not appropriate in the 10^th grade class,” Westfall said. “It wasn’t approved by the administration, it’s not part of biology (class), so that judgment is not appropriate for that type of lesson in the classroom at 10^th grade.”

The teacher apologized to students for the lesson, the Idaho Statesman reports.

The vast majority of those who commented about the story believe the teacher did nothing wrong, with many suggesting he should be rewarded for bringing a real-life lesson to class.

“I’m not getting what the problem is. Nampa’s an agricultural area. I live in Kuna and I’ve bought meat from kids who raised the animals,” Sharon Fisher posted to Facebook. “The kids asked and the kids who didn’t want to watch didn’t have to. What’s the problem?”

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“How old are sophmores? About 16? How many dis that age go hunting with an adult and learn how to kill, gut, and skin a deer or elk? I’ve never done it, but my husband and son have, just like thousands of dads and sons and/of daughters,” Lina Koontz Cawley posted.

“All this teacher did was bring it into the classroom … When we go to class reunions and talk about the outstanding teachers, it’s the ones who thought outside the box who made the biggest impression!”

Others noted that the demonstration is not much different than animal dissections that have been conducted in public schools for decades.

“And? When I was in high school biology we were issued pig fetuses, supplied by the local processing plant, to dissect as part of the anatomy curriculum,” Herb Wiens wrote. “We also dissected frogs which we then used electrical probes to stimulate muscle activity. Then, we all received chicks and used hypodermic needles to inject testosterone in a month-long project to see if it affected outward sexual appearance.”

Larry Vaughn noted that it wasn’t long ago that most, if not all, teenaged students would have been quite familiar with processing rabbits and other animals as a matter of necessity.

“What a bunch of sissys,” he wrote. “How do you think America fed itself before the advent of frozen food processing and freezer technology. You the consumer (unless you were really rich) killed and ate your dinner each and every day of the year ….

“God help American when a little rabbit blood sets off this much boo-hoo in the press.”