So high school was fun. For those who didn't go to college, high school memories are the best. Even for some college graduates, high school years were special. Usually the first love, the first underage drink, even some smoke, the wild parties, the walking everywhere or over occupying a car by three or four times its capacity. All silly stuff. The social politics, the anxiety that caused the constant effort to stay in the loop with whatever was going on. So cool and stressing.
But there is a group of high school students, that in addition to all the fun aforementioned they have also signed up for a very special program. 200 students enrolled in the school’s magnet program that allows teens to graduate with a veterinary assistance certification. This has been happening for 14 years at the Felix Varela Senior High School in Miami Dade County Florida.
The school shelters more than 80 dogs as part of its veterinary science program. Every year about 800 applications are received for this magnet program, only 100 are accepted. Students enrolled in this program have to follow a core curriculum that includes math, english and science, in addition to hands-on experience, as they have to take care of the animals. An adoption program is also run with the help of Friends Forever Rescue with a yearly average of 500 adoptions.
Right now they are looking for homes for these dogs, since the school will go under renovation during the summer and the dogs need to be out before June 6. Families willing to house these dogs will have them at least for three months, when they will be able to come to their new installations.
It is great to know that the new generation is preparing themselves as caring individuals, because we need to abolish, once and for all, animal cruelty, by bringing up to the table animal rights as a tenet of the society where we all want to live.
But there is a group of high school students, that in addition to all the fun aforementioned they have also signed up for a very special program. 200 students enrolled in the school’s magnet program that allows teens to graduate with a veterinary assistance certification. This has been happening for 14 years at the Felix Varela Senior High School in Miami Dade County Florida.
The school shelters more than 80 dogs as part of its veterinary science program. Every year about 800 applications are received for this magnet program, only 100 are accepted. Students enrolled in this program have to follow a core curriculum that includes math, english and science, in addition to hands-on experience, as they have to take care of the animals. An adoption program is also run with the help of Friends Forever Rescue with a yearly average of 500 adoptions.
Right now they are looking for homes for these dogs, since the school will go under renovation during the summer and the dogs need to be out before June 6. Families willing to house these dogs will have them at least for three months, when they will be able to come to their new installations.
It is great to know that the new generation is preparing themselves as caring individuals, because we need to abolish, once and for all, animal cruelty, by bringing up to the table animal rights as a tenet of the society where we all want to live.
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| Students at Felix Varela H.S. with rescued dogs |
