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SPANISH FORK, Utah (LifeSiteNews) – A Utah middle school faces backlash after a teacher awarded extra credit to students for eating grasshoppers as part of an essay assignment arguing that people should eat bugs in an effort to fight climate change.
Kim Cutler, a teacher at Spring Canyon Middle School, assigned sixth grade English students an essay titled “Why Americans Should Be Eating Bugs?” According to the parameters of the assignment, students were supposed to write an essay arguing that people should eat bugs rather than cows as their primary source of protein as cows produce methane that damages the ozone layer. Students were not allowed to disagree with the assignment’s argument.
In addition to the essay, Cutler gave students the opportunity to receive extra credit by eating grasshoppers that the school district, Nebo School District, bought from a commercial website.
A student in the class, Saige Wright, confronted Cutler in a video provided to FOX News. When Wright asked Cutler why students could not argue against the essay’s premise, Cutler responded by saying, “Because we don’t have any evidence for
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